The United Nations in Lebanon celebrates International Women’s Day
08 March 2020
- On this International Women’s Day, the United Nations issues a call to action on women’s rights and gender equality in Lebanon.
- We recognize that ‘gender inequality is the overwhelming injustice of our age and the biggest human rights challenge we face’ and that women’s equal rights ‘offer solutions to some of the most intractable problems of our age’, as stated by the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres in his recent remarks on women and power.
The “Global Gender Gap Report 2019” released by the World Economic Forum ranks Lebanon 145th out of 153 countries in its Global Gender Equality Index. On this International Women’s Day, the UN and its partners recognize the progress made in Lebanon but draw attention to how entrenched gender inequalities are in the country’s legislations and practices, and how much progress is needed to break the vicious cycle of gender-based violence and inequality.
To recognize International Women’s Day, the United Nations System in Lebanon, coordinated by UN Women, comes together around a joint campaign building on the Global IWD’s theme titled I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights. The campaign is aligned with UN Women’s new multigenerational campaign, Generation Equality, and marks the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted in 1995.
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