New chief of UN Women highlights girls' education as priority to combat poverty, boost development

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Date: Sep 13, 2013 10:26 AM
Subject: (Womens ESCR) New chief of UN Women highlights girls' education as priority to combat poverty, boost development
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New chief of UN Women highlights girls' education as priority to combat poverty, boost development

UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Nanette Braun, Chief of Communications and Advocacy, address press. Photo: UN Women

12 September 2013 – Facilitating access to education for women and girls is vital to lift millions out of poverty and must be a priority for Governments and international organizations, the head of the United Nations entity tasked with advancing gender equality said today.

"Education is one of the founding services that all women and girls need to access in order for us to make a difference," the Executive Director of the UN Entity for Gender Equity and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, told reporters during her first press conference in New York. She was appointed in July and took up the post in August.

"Education is the foundation for everything we need to do to succeed," she stressed, adding that this issue will feature prominently in the entity's agenda as part of a push to accelerate the achievement of the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

One of the goals is to ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.

Link: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=45833&Cr=women&Cr1=#.UjKXEMamiaV

 

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