International Women’s Day is a day to celebrate the progress women have made around the globe. It’s a day on which government leaders and women’s organizations always eagerly showcase their support for women. Yet many of these so-called advocates for women were sickeningly silent after the horrific attacks on women and children in Israel this past October 7. On International Women’s Day, they should be held to account.
UN Women, which is the United Nations organization for the advancement of women’s rights and equality, is celebrating International Women’s Day, promoting the theme “Investing in Women.” It claims that gender equality remains the world’s greatest human-rights challenge and that investing in women is a human-rights imperative. Yet after October 7, when innocent Israeli women were raped and murdered, it took UN Women several weeks to merely make a statement about the attacks — and even then, the group failed to specifically condemn the barbarity perpetrated against Israeli women and girls. This is unacceptable.
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