On Zero Discrimination Day, 1 March, we  celebrate the right of everyone to live a full and productive life—and  live it with dignity. Zero Discrimination Day highlights how people can  become informed about and promote inclusion, compassion, peace and,  above all, a movement for change. Zero Discrimination Day is helping to  create a global movement of solidarity to end all forms of  discrimination.

On Zero Discrimination Day this year,  UNAIDS is challenging the discrimination faced by women and girls in  all their diversity in order to raise awareness and mobilize action to  promote equality and empowerment for women and girls.

On Zero Discrimination Day this year,  UNAIDS is challenging the discrimination faced by women and girls in all  their diversity in order to raise awareness and mobilize action to  promote equality and empowerment for women and girls.

Although some countries have made laudable  progress towards greater gender equality, discrimination against women  and girls still exists everywhere. Intersecting with other forms of  discrimination—based, for example, on income, race, ethnicity,  disability, sexual orientation or gender identity—these rights  violations disproportionately harm women and girls. Ultimately, gender  inequality affects everyone’s health and well-being. In many countries,  laws that discriminate against women and girls remain in force, while  laws that uphold women’s basic rights and protect them against harm and  unequal treatment are far from the norm.