Remarks by Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka at the Elsie Initiative Fund: High-Level Virtual Launch of the Second Programming Round
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 [As delivered] I want to start by acknowledging and thanking Canada for helping to organize us today and also for the enormous support that they have given to this initiative. This year, in March, we hosted the Generation Equality Forum in Mexico, which is a forum that is supporting the acceleration of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action; accelerating the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals; accelerating the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda; as well as responding now to the pandemic. One of the...
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