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8 March 2024 | Op-ed

Investing in Women and Gender Equality for a Better World
By José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary.
8 March 2020 | Statement

International Women's Day 2020
Message by the United Nations' Secretary-General, António Guterres.
8 March 2019 | Statement

International Women's Day 2019
"Gender equality is fundamentally a question of power. We live in a male-dominated world with a male-dominated culture. Only when we see women’s rights as our common objective, a route to change that benefits everyone, will we begin to shift the balance", UN Secretary-General António Guterres highlights on his message.
8 March 2018 | Statement

International Women’s Day
"Achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls is the unfinished business of our time, and the greatest human rights challenge in our world", United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres says in his message.
7 March 2017 | Statement

International Women’s Day
"Closing the gender gap in employment could add $12 trillion to global GDP by 2025", United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres says in his message.
8 March 2016 | Statement

International Women’s Day 2016
"From the glass ceiling to a carpet of shards" is this year's title for the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, message.
6 March 2015 | Statement

International Women’s Day 2015
"The world must come together in response to the targeting of women and girls by violent extremists," says Ban Ki-moon, United Nations' Secretary-General.
7 March 2014 | Statement

International Women's Day
"I have a message for every girl born today, and to every woman and girl on the planet: Realizing human rights and equality is not a dream, it is a duty of governments, the United Nations and every human being", says the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
27 de November de 2013 | Op-ed

La agenda de la igualdad es la agenda de las mujeres
Columna de opinión de Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL (noviembre 2013)
25 November 2013 | Statement

International Day to End Violence against Women
"I welcome the chorus of voices calling for an end to the violence that affects an estimated one in three women in her lifetime", the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in his message.
15 October 2013 | Statement

International Day of Rural Women
"Empowering rural women is crucial for ending hunger and poverty", states the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, in his message.
11 October 2013 | Statement

International Day of the Girl Child
"Those whose mother was also deprived of an education, who live in a poor community, or who have a disability face an even steeper climb", states the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, in his message.
8 March 2013 | Statement

International Women's Day
"We declare that we will prosecute crimes against women - and never allow women to be subjected to punishments for the abuses they have suffered", says the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon.