NEW YORK: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Thursday of a recent pushback against gender equality and women's rights and urged people to fight back as the United States slammed China and the world body for"the murder of millions of baby girls".
"Twenty-five years after the Beijing Declaration, equality should be a given. But we still have a long way to go," Merkel said."Get on board. Let's work together to really target the Beijing goals. The faster the better." "In 2020, the Beijing Declaration would have no chance of being adopted," French President Emmanuel Macron said."Progress achieved by great efforts is being undermined even in our democracies, starting with the freedom for women to control their own bodies, and in particular the right to abortion."