{"id":256819,"date":"2024-03-11T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=256819"},"modified":"2024-03-09T03:51:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T03:51:44","slug":"international-womens-day-2024-unsg-antonio-guterres-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/03\/international-womens-day-2024-unsg-antonio-guterres-message\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women&#8217;s Day 2024 &#8211; UNSG Antonio Guterres Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/antonio-guterres.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-256822\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/antonio-guterres-e1709956115552.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>8 Mar 2024<\/em> &#8211; On International Women\u2019s Day, we celebrate women and girls around the world, and we applaud all they have achieved in the fight for equality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"styled-body selectionShareable\">\n<div class=\"fluid-container-narrow selectionShareable\">\n<div class=\"md:grid md:gap-4 grid-cols-body-and-social-links mb-5 lg:mb-20 selectionShareable\">\n<div class=\"selectionShareable\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item selectionShareable\">\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Women and girls have made great gains \u2013 demolishing barriers, dismantling stereotypes and driving progress towards a more just and equal world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Yet they face immense obstacles. \u00a0Billions of women and girls face marginalization, injustice and discrimination, while the persistent epidemic of violence against women disgraces humanity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Our world still reflects millennia of male-dominated power relations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">And progress is under attack, with a fierce backlash against women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">At our current rate, legal equality is some three hundred years away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">We must move much faster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">On International Women\u2019s Day, we stand with women and girls fighting for their rights, and we commit to accelerating progress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/int-women-day-pics-logo.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-256823 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/int-women-day-pics-logo-300x229.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/int-women-day-pics-logo-300x229.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/int-women-day-pics-logo.webp 367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s theme \u2013 invest in women \u2013 reminds us that ending the patriarchy requires money on the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">We must support women\u2019s organisations on the front line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">And we must invest in programmes to end violence against women, and to drive women\u2019s inclusion and leadership in economies, digital technologies, peacebuilding and climate action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">This all depends on unlocking finance for sustainable development so that countries have funds available to invest in women and girls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">We also need to increase the number of women leaders in business, finance, central banks and finance ministries. This can help drive investments in policies and programmes that respond to women and girls\u2019 needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Women\u2019s rights are a proven path to fair, peaceful, prosperous societies. It is good for us all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Together, let\u2019s take urgent action to make it a reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hari Perempuan Internasional 2024 - Pesan Sekretaris Jenderal PBB Antonio Guterres\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-kAyrFDe-9U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/indonesia.un.org\/en\/262578-international-womens-day-2024-un-secretary-general-antonio-guterres-message\" >Go to Original \u2013 un.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 Mar 2024 &#8211; On International Women\u2019s Day, we celebrate women and girls around the world, and we applaud all they have achieved in the fight for equality.\u00a0They have made great gains \u2013 demolishing barriers, dismantling stereotypes and driving progress towards a more just and equal world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":256823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[1036,2405,124,525,878],"class_list":["post-256819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlight","tag-antonio-guterres","tag-international-womens-day","tag-united-nations","tag-women","tag-women-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256825,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256819\/revisions\/256825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}