YORK: Antonio Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, warned Friday that the world cannot watch as progress is undone and that women’s rights are being attacked and “we must fight back.”
Guterres claimed that new dangers were aggravating decades of discrimination against women at a United Nations event on Saturday, the eve of International Women’s Day.
“Digital tools, while brimming with promise, are also often silencing women’s voices, amplifying bias, and fuelling harassment,” he stated on Friday. “Women’s bodies have become political battlegrounds.”
Additionally, violence on the internet is becoming more prevalent in real life. We are seeing the mainstreaming of misogyny and chauvinism rather than equal rights,” Guterres stated.
