Global progress on women’s rights is “vanishing before our eyes”, the Secretary General of the UN António Guterres has warned. Gender equality is growing more distant. On the current track, UN Women puts it 300 years away,” Guterres said in a general assembly speech ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, as he launched two weeks of discussions led by the Commission on the Status of Women.

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