{"id":8551,"date":"2026-03-29T16:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8551"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:50:19","slug":"international-womens-day-2026-justice-for-women-and-girls-needs-action-and-political-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/29\/international-womens-day-2026-justice-for-women-and-girls-needs-action-and-political-will\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women\u2019s Day 2026:\u00a0Justice for Women and Girls Needs Action and Political Will"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Commemorating International Women&#8217;s Day on March 9, 2026, the United Nations launched the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women with a primary focus on strengthening global access to justice for women and girls. Global leaders and advocates, including Malala Yousafzai and Anne Hathaway, highlighted a troubling &#8220;backsliding&#8221; of rights, noting that women globally hold only 64% of the legal protections afforded to men. The assembly addressed systemic barriers such as discriminatory laws, the weaponization of technology, and the dire erasure of women&#8217;s rights in regions like Afghanistan. Speakers emphasized that progress is not self-sustaining and requires urgent investment to close the gap between promised equality and the lived experience of injustice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: March 9, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/2026\/03\/international-womens-day-2026-justice-for-women-and-girls-needs-action-and-political-will\/\">ipsnews.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commemorating International Women&#8217;s Day on March 9, 2026, the United Nations launched the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women with a primary focus on strengthening global access to justice for women and girls. Global leaders and advocates, including Malala Yousafzai and Anne Hathaway, highlighted a troubling &#8220;backsliding&#8221; of rights, noting that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8790,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551\/revisions\/8790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}