“Shameless,” said her tweet. The editorial was carried on major news portals and websites of other state media, including the China Youth Daily and China National Radio. “Shameless”, she Tweeted Sunday night. They pointed out the lack of progress on women’s rights and supported Clinton’s tweet.
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“This shouldn’t be a moment of celebration”, Wu’s lawyer Liang Xiaojun told CNN at the time.
At a summit on gender equality and women’s empowerment here at the United Nations headquarters, Ban said the world can not achieve sustainable development without full and equal rights for half of the world’s population, in law and in practice.
“This is an unexpected and shameful setback, as well as a historical mistake” 20 years after the Beijing conference, they wrote.
The Gender Minister affirms Government’s commitment to empower women through social protection, especially female food crop growers who are the poorest of the poor.
Xi said China will do more to enhance gender equality as its “basic state policy” and called on developed countries to “scale up financial and technical assistance to developing countries”.
The side event was hosted by the UK Secretary of State for global Development, Justine Greening and the Executive Director for UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
President Higgins also spoke at a UN Sustainable Development Summit on Saturday, at which he said that the financial crisis had seen inequalities increase significantly around the world.
Rights groups and foreign administrations have urged Chinese authorities to drop the investigations against the women. But it was Mrs Clinton’s comment that really got people talking.
UNITED NATIONS, September 26 (Xinhua) – China’s announcement to support and promote South-South Cooperation was widely hailed Saturday at a roundtable co-hosted by China and the United Nations.
“Austria’s future Women’s Health Action Plan, to be presented in late 2015, will set out comprehensive actions, including preventing violence against women”, Fischer said.
At the high-level “Global Leaders” Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action’ world leaders are expected to make concrete commitments and firm pledges to overcome gender equality gaps. While Chinese women are, on average, wealthier, more educated and healthier than they were before, experts say they are losing ground, relative to men.
Said user wbxxxhhh: “Hillary wasn’t criticitising the arrests of the activists, but instead was criticising their arrests on cooked-up charges”. After 27 listening sessions with stakeholders across the country, the Task Force released its first report – Not Alone – with new recommendations for schools to prevent and respond to sexual assault and new steps by federal agencies to improve enforcement of federal laws.
But China earlier this year detained for one month five young feminists on the eve of worldwide Women’s Day.
Cyprus has come a long way in the promotion of gender equality, but a lot remains to be done, said President Anastasiades affirming his commitment on the issue. Since she announced her run in April, she has made women’s rights a cornerstone of her 2016 presidential campaign.
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“In too many places – from China to Egypt, from Russian Federation to Venezuela – women have been swept up in repressive crackdowns on civil society, and deprived of their universal rights and fundamental freedoms”, Obama said in a statement.
