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Progress on Gender Equality Fuels Progress across Entire United Nations Agenda, Secretary-General Says at Closing of General Assembly High-level Session

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Progress on Gender Equality Fuels Progress across Entire United Nations Agenda, Secretary-General Says at Closing of General Assembly High-level Session

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the closing session of the High-level Event of the General Assembly on “The Contributions of Women, the Young and Civil Society to the Post-2015 Development Agenda”, in New York today:

Kazakhstan to Host Workshop on How Security Council’s Resolution on Weapons of Mass Destruction Fuels Global Drive for Disarmament, Non-proliferation

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Kazakhstan to Host Workshop on How Security Council’s Resolution on Weapons of Mass Destruction Fuels Global Drive for Disarmament, Non-proliferation

The Government of Kazakhstan will be hosting a workshop on 11-12 March in Astana to take stock of how a decade-old Security Council resolution aimed at curbing weapons of mass destruction impacts global and regional disarmament and non-proliferation.

Gender Equality Key to Achieving Millennium Goals, Says Secretary-General, Urging Greater Focus on Maternal Health as Commission on Status of Women Opens

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Gender Equality Key to Achieving Millennium Goals, Says Secretary-General, Urging Greater Focus on Maternal Health as Commission on Status of Women Opens

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the fifty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York today:

Persistent Political Divisions Undermine Libya’s Transition, Secretary-General’s Special Representative Warns in Briefing to Security Council

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Persistent Political Divisions Undermine Libya’s Transition, Secretary-General’s Special Representative Warns in Briefing to Security Council

Political divisions continued to undermine the management of Libya’s transition period, and the nation faced “the risk of embarking on a new trajectory of unprecedented violence”, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council today.

‘We Need Bold Action Going Forward’, UN-Women’s Chief Tells Commission in Prelude to Session’s Review of Development Goals’ Impact

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‘We Need Bold Action Going Forward’, UN-Women’s Chief Tells Commission in Prelude to Session’s Review of Development Goals’ Impact

With one year left to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by the 2015 target date, the international community must take decisive steps to ensure that gender equality and women’s empowerment became a reality, high-level speakers said today as the Commission on the Status of Women opened its fifty-eighth session.

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