UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on the eve of International Women's Day that it will take about 300 more years to achieve gender equality in the world.. It is reported by CNN.

Guterres says progress towards gender equality is 'disappearing before our eyes'. He cited high rates of maternal mortality, forced marriage of girls, kidnapping and attacks on girls for attending school as evidence that hope for gender equality is "

“Women’s rights are being abused, threatened and violated all over the world,” the UN Secretary General stressed, naming several countries, including Afghanistan, where, according to him, “women and girls have been excluded from public life”.

“Crisis and conflicts affect women and girls first and worst,” said the Secretary General and cited the violation of women’s rights due to Russia’s war in Ukraine as an example..

In order to achieve gender equality, Guterres insisted on raising the level of education, income and employment for women and girls, especially in developing countries, and to promote the participation of women and girls in science and technology development..

“An age of patriarchy, discrimination and harmful stereotypes has created a huge gender gap in science and technology. Let's be clear:

global frameworks don't work for women and girls around the world. They need to change,” he added..

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Earlier it was reported that the Ukrainian paramedic and volunteer Yulia Paevskaya with the call sign “Taira”, who was captured by the Russian military in the spring near the city of Mariupol in the Donetsk region, became the winner of the international award “The Bravest Woman” (“The Bravest Woman in the World”), which is awarded by the State.