NEW CHIEF OF UN WOMEN HIGHLIGHTS LADY'S’ EDUCATION AS PRIORITY TO COMBAT POVERTY, BOOST DEVELOPMENT

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Date: 12 Sep 2013 15:00:00 -0400
Subject: 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 DEVELOPMENTNew York, Sep 12 2013
3:00PMFacilitating 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.

Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka, who focused on several of her priorities for UN
Women, underlined that it is not only crucial to facilitate access to
education for girls but also to reduce the number of girls who drop
out of school.

Another key priority will be ensuring women's reproductive health
rights, she said. "I see reproductive health and reproductive rights
as an essential building block on which we need to serve the women,
and I see economic empowerment as another important layer. Having
those layers we can then address poverty and we will be able to lead
to women's emancipation. All of these are integral," she said.

Working with men and boys is also important as they play an important
role in actively fighting for the emancipation of women, she added.

During the press briefing, Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka noted that while it is
important to empower women and have their voices be heard, it is also
important strengthen national institutions to better serve women's
needs.

"It is my hope and vision that together, and using the existing
agreements as well as conventions, we are at a position where we can
be game changers as far as supporting women's emancipation," she said.

"Women's voices need to be heard but the public institutions that we
lead need to serve women and women must feel the service that we are
bringing to them."

She added that UN Women will seek to collaborate and coordinate with
organizations and institutions within and outside the UN with both the
expertise and the resources to do advance women's interests.

In addition, Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka said another priority in her agenda
will be to increase funding for the entity. UN Women will seek to work
with Member States to increase their contributions, as well explore
ways to diversify funding sources from the private sector,
foundations, philanthropists and individuals, she said. UN Women is
currently looking to raise $100 million by the end of 2013.Sep 12 2013
3:00PM
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