UN event spotlights the challenge of ‘rollback’ of women’s rights
Posted on April 10, 2025, by Loretto Community
Posted by Global Sisters Report April 3, 2025
Catholic sisters, joining thousands of other women from throughout the world in two weeks of meetings, networking and celebratory sisterhood at the United Nations, marked the 30th anniversary of the landmark 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action with both jubilation and sober assessment.
In public presentations and interviews with Global Sisters Report, sisters who attended the 69th session of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women (March 10-21), which focused on assessing the Beijing legacy, spoke of a dual reality: of progress for women and girls in some areas and yet still frustrating challenges and pushback to gains made over three decades.
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