Zeid calls on States to go "beyond lip-service Towards gender equality"

For International Women's Day, 8 March 2015

 GENEVA (5 March 2015) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein today highlight highlighted "the pressing Need for women to Participate in all discussions of Strategic responses to extremist violence, to discrimination, and to deprivation of all kinds."

"This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Programme of Action. Sixteen states can this Opportunity to go beyond lip service and Towards Gender Equality - Genuinely challenging and Dismantling the power structures and dynamics qui perpetuate discrimination Against Women, "he said.