Women and girls pay the highest price in all crises and conflicts, the head of the UN Women’s Agency said on Monday and that Ukraine’s “terrible war” has now joined that list, after Myanmar, Afghanistan to the Sahel and Haiti. ”
Under Secretary-General Seema Bauhaus said during the opening session of the annual meeting of the ‘Commission on the Status of Women’ that with each passing day, the war is harming the lives, hopes and future of Ukraine’s women and girls. Bauhaus did not mention the men who are being killed and wounded in the fighting in Ukraine, although he said, “I pray that the women and all those facing the conflict find peace soon.” The primary theme of the two-week meeting this year is ‘Empowering women to tackle climate change’. This is the commission’s first private session on the status of women in three years after the COVID-19 pandemic. “As with all crises, climate change also pays the highest price to women and girls,” Bauhaus said. UN Women’s executive director Bauhaus said this is especially true for those who have already been left behind. The responsibility of taking care of the household falls on women, rural women, young girls are unable to go to school because they have to travel far to fetch water during drought. Landless, old and economically weak women are easy targets. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the world is still male-dominated. The climate crisis, pollution, desertification and loss of biodiversity, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine War and other conflicts, affect all but “women and girls face the greatest dangers and the deepest losses”. Is.”