SG/SM/14527-WOM/1923
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the High-Level Meeting on the Rule of Law side event on women’s access to justice, in New York, 24 September:
Amid warnings by a new United Nations report that significant development gains worldwide risked backsliding due to the slowdown in providing aid, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called today for a stronger global partnership to advance progress towards poverty eradication, sustainable growth and other development targets that world leaders had pledged to achieve by 2015.