UN Nepal Country Team Commits to Generation Equality

The year 2020 marked 25 years since the Beijing Platform for Action set out to remove the systemic barriers that hold women back from equal participation in all areas of life, whether in public or in private. Despite some progress, real change has been agonizingly slow for the majority of women and girls in the world. In the lead up to the International Women’s Day 2020, the UN Resident Coordinator Office in Nepal brought together all the UN Heads of Agencies to rally support for the #GenerationEquality and express their commitment to stand up for women’s rights and tackle the unfinished business of empowering women through a new, groundbreaking, multigenerational campaign: “Generation Equality: Realizing women’s rights for an equal future”. As a part of the campaign, the UN Heads of agencies in Nepal are demanding equal pay, equal sharing of unpaid care and domestic work, an end to sexual harassment and all forms of violence against women and girls, health-care services that respond to their needs, and their equal participation in political life and decision-making in all areas of life. Recorded on March 2020.