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The SIDS Gender Equality Forum (GEF) was held May 25-26th, 2024 at Nelson's Dockyard, Antigua and Barbuda just days ahead of the global convening for the SIDS4. Find out how we can work together to shape a more equal future.
As we mark the International Day for People of African Descent this year, we also mark the final year of the International Decade for People of African Descent, 2015-2024. Through this Observance the United Nations aims to promote the extraordinary contributions of the African diaspora around the world and to eliminate all forms of discrimination against people of African descent.
In 2021, initiated by the UN Women Multi-Country Office – Caribbean, UN Women launched a global programme for Afro-descendant women. Read more about the interconnections of gender justice and gender equality in these MCO Caribbean feature stories.
The 68th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) concluded on March 27 with the adoption of Agreed Conclusions. This outcome document adopted by Member States serves as a blueprint to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective.
The 2024 International Women’s Day theme is Invest in women: Accelerate progress and it will focus on five key areas to ensure no woman is left behind:
- Investing in women: A human rights issue
- Ending poverty
- Implementing gender-responsive financing
- Shifting to a green economy and care society
- Supporting feminist change-makers
The Strategic Plan 2022-2025 will guide UN Women’s work in the Caribbean for the next four years. With an eye toward the 2030 deadline to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, it details how UN Women will catalyse urgent and sustained action to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.
Caribbean Women Count: The Ending Violence against Women and Girls Data Hub is a central repository of knowledge on the prevalence of the different forms of intimate partner violence (IPV) and non-partner sexual violence from five countries (Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago) and barriers to accessing services in CARICOM.
An Interactive Learning Portal for Parliamentarians. This portal is a joint-initiative of ParlAmericas and the UN Women Multi-Country Office - Caribbean. It is designed for self-guided learning and includes resources for in-person trainings. ParlAmericas gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Government of Canada used in developing this portal. The downloadable tools on this portal were developed by the UN Women Multi-Country Office - Caribbean.
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Ahead of the SIDS4 Conference and in support of the UN Women and CDB hosted Gender Equality Forum, this video highlights and amplifies the voices of women and young women from Small Island Developing States (SIDS), including CSOs and rural women, emphasising the importance of gender equality priorities and highlighting inequalities that require urgent attention during SIDS discussions and outcomes’ implementation.
A joint project of the UN Women Multi-Country Offices Caribbean and Fiji.
Generation Equality Midpoint Moment
Generation Equality remains a critical advocacy and programming initiative as an accelerator for the SDGs at a time when women’s rights are under increased threats globally and progress has stalled and reversed in more than 30 percent of the SDGs.
Learn more from Project Executive of the Generation Equality Initiative and Regional Director of UN Women Americas and the Caribbean, Maria Noel Vaeza.
More information here.
