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Secretary-General Urges Inter-Parliamentary Union Members to Tackle Bigotry, Xenophobia, Hate Speech, Addressing Assembly in Video Message

SG/SM/21721

​​​​​​​Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the opening of the one-hundred-forty-sixth Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, in Manama, Bahrain, today:

Deputy Secretary-General Calls for ‘New Approach’ to Protect Most Vulnerable at Closing Press Conference for Least Developed Countries Conference in Doha

DSG/SM/1837

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks at the closing press conference for the fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, in Doha on 9 March:

Delegates Highlight Rural Women’s, Girls’ National, Economic Contributions, But Point to Gaps in Education, Food Security, as Commission Session Continues

WOM/2225

​​​​​​​Representatives of Member States today delivered voluntary presentations on their national efforts to implement the 2018 agreed outcomes on “Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls” as the Commission on the Status of Women continued its sixty-seventh session.