Following today’s #CEDAW elections, we congratulate the members newly elected to the United Nations committee 🇺🇳

#Congratulations

It's been an honour to meet ambassadors from around the world as the UK's candidate for the United Nations’s #CEDAW committee. Equality Hub; Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office; UK at the UN 🇬🇧🇺🇳; UK Mission Geneva 🇬🇧

I'm looking forward to tomorrow's election and wishing all the best to the other candidates.

80 years since D-Day.

80 years since the largest seaborne invasion in history.

80 years since the heroic efforts of those who landed on the beaches of Normandy to liberate Europe from Nazi tyranny.

80 years of peace in Western Europe since.

Today we say thank you.

#DDay80

The UK’s Prof. Shazia Choudhry has a clear vision for the United Nations Committee of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

If elected, she will focus on putting the needs of victims front and centre. 👇

And we are delighted and honoured that Prof. Shazia Choudhry is our first ever candidate to CEDAW - and such a well qualified one too

Meet Prof. Shazia Choudhry 👇

She is the UK’s 🇬🇧 first ever candidate for the United Nations’s #CEDAW committee

I’m delighted to be the UK’s first-ever candidate for the United Nations’s #CEDAW committee. Equality Hub; Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office; UK at the UN 🇬🇧🇺🇳; UK Mission Geneva 🇬🇧
Learn about my vision for the role and focus on addressing current and future threats to gender discrimination, if elected on 7th June, below ⬇️

Minister for Women and Equalities, Kemi Badenoch, supported Prof. Shazia Choudhry as the UK’s first-ever candidate for the United Nations’s #CEDAW committee at an event attended by ambassadors from over 50 countries 🇬🇧🇺🇳

Minister for Women and Equalities, Kemi Badenoch, supported Prof. Shazia Choudhry as the UK’s first-ever candidate for the United Nations’s #CEDAW committee at an event attended by ambassadors from over 50 countries 🇬🇧🇺🇳

Want to learn more about the UK’s first-ever candidate for the United Nations’s #CEDAW committee?

Hear Prof. Shazia Choudhry share her vision for the role during Geneva Academy of IHL and Human Rights’s public presentation of candidates later today.

Register: geneva-academy.ch/event/all-even…

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s statement on the Infected Blood Inquiry.

We're improving access to fertility care as set out in our #WomensHealthStrategy .

✔️ People with non-transmissible HIV will be able to donate their sperm or eggs to start a family

❌No extra screening costs for female same-sex couples undergoing IVF

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It was an honour to join this year's #IDAHOBIT Forum, closed by Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, and to discuss the positive steps we have taken to improve the lives of LGBT people.

Minister for Equalities, Stuart Andrew, was in the Netherlands for the Council of Europe #IDAHOBIT Forum, discussing our history of advancing LGBT rights with policy makers, experts and government representatives from across Europe 🏳️‍🌈

New RSHE guidance: What it means for sex education lessons in schools 👇

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“The EHRC retains its independent participation rights at the UN Human Rights Council and remains able to report directly to the United Nations on human rights issues.”

Minister for Women and Equalities, Kemi Badenoch, speaking in the UK House of Commons.

We're improving access to fertility care as set out in our #WomensHealthStrategy .

✔️ People with non-transmissible HIV will be able to donate their sperm or eggs to start a family
❌No extra screening costs for female same-sex couples undergoing IVF

gov.uk/government/new…

“We're updating building regulations so that toilets in non-domestic buildings offer safety, privacy and dignity for all people who use them.”

Watch Minister for Women and Equalities, Kemi Badenoch, speak about new building regulations in the UK House of Commons.

Today is the beginning of The Fostering Network #FosterCareFortnight

Every child deserves a safe and secure home❤️🏠

That’s why we're investing £36m to deliver a fostering programme for thousands of children in need of support.

Contact your local authority for advice on how to foster.