NEW YORK - Leaders and activists warned Thursday of a global pushback against women’s rights, 25 years after a landmark conference in Beijing that set out an ambitious agenda for women’s equality. Twenty-five years after the Beijing conference, advocates noted that no country has achieved full gender equality. German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Aug. 19, 2020. “Everywhere, women’s rights are under attack, as are human rights, from which they are inseparable. Ethiopia's first female President Sahle-Work Zewde delivers a speech at the Parliament in Addis Ababa, Oct. 25, 2018.

Source: Ethiopian News October 02, 2020 00:11 UTC