AMMAN — Women and girls will now be placed
at the heart of the UK’s international work, with a new strategy that will
tackle gender inequality across the globe, according to a press statement.
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Launched on International Women’s Day, the new strategy will set
out how the UK will work to tackle global gender inequality at every
opportunity, including combatting attempts to roll back women’s rights, and
work with partners around the world to do the same. For the first time, this
strategy commits the
UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to
focus more than 80 percent of its bilateral aid programs on gender equality by
2030.
Progress towards gender equality is
increasingly under threat. Climate change and humanitarian crises continue to
disproportionately affect women and girls, there are attempts to backtrack on
women’s rights including in countries like Iran and Afghanistan, sexual
violence is happening in conflicts in Ukraine and elsewhere, and violence
against women is growing online.
We’re ramping up our work to tackle the inequalities which remain, at every opportunity.”
“Advancing gender equality and challenging
discrimination is obviously the right thing to do, but it also brings freedom,
boosts prosperity and trade, and strengthens security — it is the fundamental
building block of all healthy democracies,” said UK Foreign Secretary James
Cleverly.
“Our investment to date has improved lives
around the world, with more girls in school, fewer forced into early marriage
and more women in top political and leadership roles. But these hard-won gains
are now under increasing threat. We’re ramping up our work to tackle the
inequalities which remain, at every opportunity.”
The plan commits the FCDO to
involving its entire network of high commissions and embassies around the world
to deliver the strategy.
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