(Source: UN - United Nations) High-Level Meeting Adopts Political Declaration Pledging Government Action "As women thrive, so will we all," said United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as he opened the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women today, marking two decades of progress that he warned had been "unacceptably slow" in achieving gender equality since the historic adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995. "The world will never realize 100 per cent of its goals if 50 per cent of its people cannot realize their full potential," he told the Commission. While women bore the burden of conflict, war,...
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