One in ten ladies dwell in excessive poverty globally, the United Nations (UN) reported on Friday.
“Worldwide Ladies’s Day is a day that encourages us to recognise the injustices ladies endure, in addition to the dedication now we have to create a society the place gender equality is a part of our actuality,” the legislation commissioner workplace committee stated in an announcement.
The workplace performs a key position in monitoring Cyprus’s compliance with worldwide human rights conventions, together with these targeted on ladies’s rights.
As a part of this duty, the workplace prepares and submits periodic reviews to related UN committees. In February 2025, the workplace was invited to submit the ninth Periodic Report on the Republic’s efforts to remove discrimination towards ladies, according to the Conference on the Elimination of All Types of Discrimination Towards Ladies (CEDAW) to the UN.
This report will spotlight progress made in numerous areas, emphasizing equality between women and men throughout political, financial, social, and cultural spheres.
In an announcement, gender equality commissioner Josie Christodoulou emphasised the significance of informing ladies about their rights and inspired them to say themselves, notably in situations of discrimination.
She known as consideration to completely different types of discrimination and exampled inaccessible employment, ignorance, verbal and sexual harassment, and maternity safety.
Moreover, she underlined the 5 key factors introduced by UN’s ladies’s day initiative “Put money into Ladies, Speed up Progress” which incorporates the funding in direction of ladies, an finish to poverty, the implementation of equal pay, the transition right into a inexperienced economic system and assist of feminists who make a change to society.
“No matter political views, hundreds of girls in Cyprus have united their voices and fought necessary battles for us to have the place now we have right now in our society, economic system and political life,” she stated paying tribute to the influence of the ladies that paved the best way for her.
“The primary problem stays the continual effort to vary our tradition and break stereotypes,” Christodoulou stated in an announcement, including that each one ranges of training to the general public is essential to rid the mindsets that stands in the best way of girls’s equal roles in society.