Women and gender issues

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a global leaders meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Every Woman, Every Child event, in New York today:

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, on the occasion of "Women Lead the Way as Agents of Peace and Security", to commemorate the 15-year anniversary of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) and 20-year anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the UN-Women-World Bank event on financing for gender equality, in Addis Ababa on 14 July:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at an event to end violence against women, in Bridgetown today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the event on “The Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda”, in New York today:

Following are Secretary-General’s remarks at a special ceremony on receiving an Honorary Doctorate in women’s studies at Ewha University in Seoul today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the high-level lunch on “Every woman, every child”, in New York today:

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

The Commission on the Status of Women had a revitalized role to play in ensuring the 2030 “expiry date” for gender inequality across the world, as laid out in the Political Declaration adopted last week, said the United Nations top gender official at the closing of its fifty-ninth session today.