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Sustainable Development Goals More Than Inspiring Action Plan, Stresses Deputy Secretary-General, Calling Them Good Business, Fit for Purpose

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Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the SDG [Sustainable Development Goals] Advocates Reception, in Johannesburg today:

Academy Award-Nominated Film ‘Ferdinand’ to Be Screened at United Nations Headquarters in Celebration of Human Rights Day

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The Department of Public Information — in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations and the Consulate General of Brazil in New York — will host a screening of the Academy Award-nominated animated film Ferdinand to mark Human Rights Day and the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Deputy Secretary-General, at High-Level World Aids Day Event, Hails Investments by South Africa, Global Fund in Programmes for Adolescent Girls, Young Women

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Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks at the World AIDS Day high-level event on adolescent girls and young women, with the Global Fund and the Government of South Africa, in Johannesburg today:

Victim-Centred Justice Systems Can Deny Space for Impunity, Any Form of Discrimination against Women, Says Deputy Secretary-General

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Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Motsepe Foundation Sustainable Development Goal 5 Breakfast Panel Discussion on the theme “Achieve equality by ending all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere”, in Johannesburg today:

Secretary-General Urges Fair Globalization That Creates Decent Jobs, Opportunities for All, in Message to International Trade Union Confederation’s World Congress

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Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the fourth World Congress of the International Trade Union Confederation, being held in Copenhagen, from 2 to 7 December: