(Source: United Nations General Assembly) General Assembly Twenty-eighth Special Session 1st Meeting (PM) Despite remarkable strides in women's rights and empowerment worldwide in the last two decades, greater global efforts were needed to ensure full gender equality, human dignity, sustainable growth and the future of the planet, senior United Nations officials told the General Assembly today. "As we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Cairo Conference and look ahead to the future, we cannot afford to short-change development," said Ban Ki -moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, as he opened the Assembly's special session to review progress in implementing the goals set...
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