☆ equality Gender men and women. ☆ 《Dr. Nassim Salah Zaki, Global Peace Ambassador, Middle Eastern African Coordinator for Peace, Human Rights, Children and Women. 》 Gender equality is essential to the realization of human rights for all. However, discriminatory laws against women persist in every corner of the globe as new discriminatory laws are enacted. Many laws in all legal norms still assign women first place in relation to citizenship, nationality, education, marital rights, right to use, parental rights, and inheritance and property rights. These forms of discrimination against women are incompatible with women's empowerment. Women constitute the law of the world's poorest people and the number of women living in rural poverty has increased by 50% since 1975. Women work two-thirds of the number of working hours in the world and produce half of the world's food, yet they earn only 10% of the income in the world and own less than 1% of Ownership in the wor...