"The events of 2021 and the first months of 2022 conspired to crush the rights and dignity of millions of women and girls," condemns Amnesty's secretary general, Anies Calamar.
"The crises in the world" that affect women's rights "do not understand equality, let alone justice," she adds.
In a statement released by the organization on International Women's Day, Ms. Kalamar points out that the pandemic of the new coronavirus and the curtailment of the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan, where the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban seized power last August after 20 years of war, were among the main events that affected women's rights.
Each of these developments seriously undermined them, let alone when "considered all together," she judges, adding that it is urgent to "stand up" to confront "this global assault on the dignity of women and girls."
He further described "thewidespread sexual violence that characterized the armed conflict in Ethiopia", "the attack on the right to abortion and access to abortion in the United States", and Turkey's decision "to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence" in negative developments, calling on governments that have taken decisions that affect women's rights to revoke them.
Source: CNA
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