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UN calls for gender equality as a way to defeat poverty

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“The United Nations deploring the discrimination and violence against women and girls that is still rampant around the world and demanding full gender equality as the way to win the battle against poverty, hunger, armed conflict and disease”. July 2005, UN Press Release

On World Population Day, Secretary-General Kofi Annan, reaffirmed the importance of gender equality. He noted that “On this World Population Day, let us resolve to empower women and girls by our commitment to gender equality”.

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Author(s)	UN Press Release
Publication Date	13-07-2005
Source	UN News

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