{"id":121733,"date":"2021-04-18T19:20:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T19:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=121733"},"modified":"2021-04-18T19:20:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T19:20:42","slug":"a-great-disappointment-triggs-issues-rallying-cry-over-treatment-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/a-great-disappointment-triggs-issues-rallying-cry-over-treatment-of-women\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A great disappointment\u2019: Triggs issues rallying cry over treatment of women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gillian Triggs says the ongoing poor treatment of women is a great disappointment, and she is incredulous debates about gender equality are still taking place.<\/p>\n

Speaking from Geneva, the former Australian Human Rights Commission president \u2013 now working for the United Nations\u2019 refugee agency \u2013 has issued a call to arms for women to support each other in the fight for gender justice.<\/p>\n

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Gillian Triggs at the University of Melbourne in 2019. She is now Assistant High Commissioner for Protection with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.<\/span>Credit:<\/span>Simon Schluter<\/cite><\/p>\n

\u201cI think we need a really strong movement, globally, to address the inequality of women,\u201d Professor Triggs said. \u201cWe\u2019ve talked about it for so long, but we are not actually implementing the policies to ensure that we end that inequality.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think that women need to come together, we need to speak up, we need to be very strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Months before COVID-19 swept the world, Professor Triggs took up a posting as Assistant High Commissioner for Protection with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. She is also UN Assistant Secretary-General.<\/p>\n

From Geneva, she has watched with dismay the recent furore over gender equity in Australia \u2013 including the treatment of women who work in our Federal Parliament \u2013 and the \u201cregressions\u201d in moving towards greater equality in many parts of the world.<\/p>\n

\u2018I can hardly believe that I\u2019m still having these conversations about the equality of women.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I can speak personally, it is a great disappointment for my generation,\u201d Professor Triggs said. \u201cI can hardly believe that I\u2019m still having these conversations about the equality of women. I thought the problem was fixed in the \u201960s and the \u201970s. It\u2019s manifest that it isn\u2019t. We\u2019ve made progress, of course we have, but now we see a significant regression.\u201d<\/p>\n

During her five years leading Australia\u2019s Human Rights Commission, from 2012 to 2017, Professor Triggs\u2019 inquiries \u2013 including one into children in immigration detention \u2013 sparked criticism from the Coalition government, including by then immigration minister Scott Morrison and prime minister Tony Abbott.<\/p>\n

She began her UN role in September 2019, spending the first months meeting the myriad agencies involved in refugee rights and protections. But since March last year, the work of humanitarian agencies has been severely hampered by the pandemic.<\/p>\n

In 2020, 168 countries shut their borders to international travel \u2013 many making no exceptions for refugees.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pandemic has had a very significant impact on refugees and the more than 80 million people displaced globally,\u201d Professor Triggs said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen a very significant setback to refugee protection, but also, because of the social and economic impacts, a huge setback to education. And we sadly think particularly for girls, where advances had been made in recent years, we\u2019re now seeing a very significant regression.\u201d<\/p>\n

International agencies are also concerned that many countries have responded to the global crisis with inward-looking nationalism.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are many, many countries that have simply gone into their own, into themselves [and] protected themselves, but really failed to do so in relation to the community generally,\u201d Professor Triggs said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps what illustrates this point more than anything is that the overwhelming majority of vaccines have been bought by 10 countries, and are simply unavailable for continents like Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s just a shocking realisation that despite all the agreements of solidarity, we\u2019ve not actually seen it in something as important as COVID and if, in a global pandemic \u2013 a health pandemic which is no respecter of status or boundaries \u2013 if even in that context we\u2019re struggling to achieve global collaboration, then we\u2019ve clearly got a long way to go.\u201d <\/p>\n

Having recently returned from a trip to the Jordanian capital of Amman, she was moved to learn the country\u2019s government will include \u2013 without question \u2013 its large refugee community in its vaccine program.<\/p>\n

Before the pandemic struck, it was estimated there were roughly 80 million refugees across the world. Professor Triggs said that figure was probably closer to 100 million now and, when internally displaced people were included, the true figure could be hundreds of millions.<\/p>\n

The UNHCR is preparing to issue new estimates for the global number of refugees, asylum seekers, stateless and internally displaced people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question then is how to implement what we know is going to happen, or we think it\u2019s very likely to happen in government policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd of course, for some, the response to that is simply to close borders and to push back boats.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gillian Triggs will be guest speaker at this year\u2019s UN and Australia Sustainable Partnerships Forum on Tuesday. Details: partnershipsforum.unaa.org.au<\/strong><\/p>\n

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