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UN WOMEN, UNDP and ILO
To look at lessons learnt from COVID-19 responses from a gender perspective.
As the latest edition of Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2021 makes clear, women and girls remain disproportionately affected by the socioeconomic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, struggling with lost jobs and livelihoods, increased burdens of unpaid care work and persistently high levels of gender-based violence. And despite women’s central roles in COVID-19 response, they have been largely excluded from decision-making during the pandemic. As a result, progress on SDG 5 targets is lagging far behind. Based on a unique dataset of nearly 5,000 measures taken across 226 countries and territories in the past two years, a new report by UN Women and UNDP, Government Responses to COVID-19: Lessons on gender equality for a world in turmoil shows what governments can do now to recover the lost ground, strengthen future preparedness and get the SDGs back on track.
OPENING REMARKS
- Asa Regner, Deputy Executive Director, UN Women
- Haoliang Xu, Assistant Administrator and Director of Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP
PANELISTS
- Malika Kadirkhanova, Chairperson of the Committee on Women and Gender Equality of the Senate of Uzbekistan
- Natalia Gherardi, Executive Director, Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia y Género, Argentina
- Hanna Onwen-Huma, Senior Specialist, Ministry for Social Affairs and Health, Finland (TBC)
- Paola Simonetti, Director of Equality, ITUC
MODERATOR
Manuela Tomei, Director, Conditions of Work and Employment, ILO
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