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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.
7 March 2019 | Op-ed

Recognizing Women’s Rights, Essential for Inclusive and Sustainable Development
Op-ed by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC.
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.
24 November 2016 | Statement

International Day to End Violence Against Women and Girls
"Today, we are seeing the world lit up in orange, symbolizing a bright future for women and girls", UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in his message.
11 October 2016 | Statement

International Day of the Girl Child
"The wellbeing, human rights and empowerment of the world’s 1.1 billion girls are central to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. When we agreed on that agenda, we promised girls quality education and health services", United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says.
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.
25 November 2015 | Statement

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
"Even in areas at peace, violence against women persists in the form of femicide, sexual assault, female genital mutilation/cutting, early marriage and cyberviolence", Ban Ki-moon says.
9 October 2015 | Statement

International Day of the Girl Child
"Let us resolve to invest in today’s adolescent girls so that tomorrow they can stand strong as citizens, political leaders, entrepreneurs, heads of their households and more", UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in his message.
10 July 2015 | Statement

World Population Day
"Not since the end of the Second World War have so many people been forced from their homes across the planet", Ban Ki-moon says.
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.
25 November 2014 | Statement

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 2014
Worldwide, one in three women will suffer physical or sexual violence at some point in her life.
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.
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.
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.
23 November 2012 | Statement

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
"We must fundamentally challenge the culture of discrimination that allows violence to continue", indicates the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, in his message.
25 November 2011 | Statement

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Message by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon.

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