#GAReads | Fight for Gender Equality at U.N. Faces Resistance, Report Says
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. Photo credit: Kuhlmann / MSC [CC BY 3.0 de], via Wikimedia Commons.
“Fight for Gender Equality at U.N. Faces Resistance, Report Says”:
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has inched up slightly in the eyes of women's groups who said on Wednesday he has delivered on some promises to make the global organization a feminist institution but faces a major backlash and resistance.
The Feminist U.N. Campaign, a coalition of women's rights groups, advocates and U.N. staff, gave him a grade of B-, up from the C+ it gave him a year ago.
The coalition launched its report card after the secretary-general said he would be a feminist leader when he took office two years ago.