The meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, marked the 25th anniversary of the seminal 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing. "In the coming five years, China will donate another $10 million to UN Women," President Xi Jinping said in a pre-recorded video, proposing another world meeting on gender equality for 2025. 'Question of power'Meanwhile, France and Mexico committed to hosting an international forum on women's rights in Paris next June -- a meeting which was scheduled for July of this year but was canceled due to the pandemic. "Everywhere, women's rights are under attack, as are human rights, from which they are inseparable," he said. Even at the UN General Assembly, there were only a handful of women speakers among the representatives for 170 countries.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 02, 2020 00:00 UTC