2020: International Women's Day

Christian Conference of Asia (CCA)

Towards Upholding Rights and Dignity of Women in an ‘Equal and Enabled World’

CCA General Secretary’s Statement on International Women’s Day 2020

"International Women’s Day (IWD) is an occasion to celebrate collective acts of courage and perseverance of women in their determination to achieve equality and transform society.

Ending prejudice against women is a prerequisite for securing their fundamental rights. This year’s IWD theme, An Equal World is an Enabled World: Each for Equal, and the UN Women’s theme, I am Generation Equality: Realising Women’s Rights, bring back the focus on the shared responsibility that all have in forging empowerment and equality.

The year 2020 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action which was passed at the Fourth World Conference on Women. The focus of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal #5, ‘to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls’, has indeed gained momentum in the gender-specific contextualisation of the work in non-governmental and faith-based organisations among others. ... "



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