Home / World / Newsmakers

International Women's Day marked across world

Updated: 2015-03-09 11:19 Comments

International Women's Day marked across world

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (Center) and wife SeBan Soon-taek (second from right) march in the International Women's Day March for Gender Equality and Women's right in front of the United Nations in New York, on March 8, 2015.[Photo/IC]

UN officials say much has been achieved under the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, signed by 189 governments in 1995 as a pledge for realizing women's rights. But UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the gains have been too slow and uneven.

He says the most urgent issue is rape being used as a war weapon, from Nigeria and Somalia to Iraq and Syria.

Most Popular
...