Stories written by Antonia Kirkland

International Women’s Day, 2024
Why Legal Equality Is Key to Women’s Economic Rights and Well-Being

By Antonia Kirkland and Bryna Subherwal
Women’s economic opportunities, rights, and well-being are being denied worldwide by sex-discriminatory laws and policies that curtail women’s access to employment, equal pay, property ownership, and inheritance.

International Women’s Day, 2021
Feminist Leadership at the United Nations — Gender Equality Within & Without

By Antonia Kirkland
When the United Nations was founded in 1945, the principle of equality for all – regardless of sex, race, language, or religion - was enshrined in the organization's Charter.

To Achieve Gender Equality Within, the UN Must Do More to Tackle Sexual Harassment

By Antonia Kirkland
In September 2017, Secretary-General António Guterres launched the “System-wide strategy on gender parity”, which set the goal of reaching gender parity within the United Nations by 2028 and outlined a strategy on how to achieve this, including the introduction of special measures, senior appointments, targets and accountability, amongst other things.

The State We’re In: Ending Sexism in Nationality Laws

By Antonia Kirkland
Everyone has the right to be born with a nationality – safe, fearless and free – and secure in their human right to equally transfer, acquire, change or retain it. There is no reason why over 50 countries should still have sexist nationality and citizenship laws, which largely discriminate against women, potentially putting them and their families in danger and denying them the rights, benefits and services that everyone should enjoy.


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