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Thursday 26 Nov 2015 - 10:05 Makkah mean time-14-2-1437
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New York (IINA) – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday said ending gender-based violence is a top priority for achieving the United Nations founding mission of peace, development and human rights, noting his specific concerns about rising violent extremism and its impact on women and girls, and calling for global collective action to end the scourge.
“If we are united, between men and women, among government leaders, business communities and civil society leaders I think there will be nothing which we cannot overcome. There will be nothing which will stand in our way to achieve gender equality and gender empowerment,” said Ban in his remarks during the commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, at the UN Headquarters in New York.
He called for ending all attacks against women and girls, including domestic abuse, sexual assault, slavery, trafficking, female genital mutilation, child and forced marriages and all other forms of abuse, stressing that all crimes against women must be punished.
The UN chief announced that he is preparing a Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism, a framework to underpin action to stop violence against women, where challenges pertaining to this issue will be discussed in the weeks ahead.
He pledged to continue to do everything possible to advance women’s leadership and give as many women as possible the chance they deserve to make a difference as leaders at the United Nations.
In his message to mark the occasion, observed annually on November 25, the Secretary-General echoed similar sentiments as he called for urgent need to collaboratively act in order to end crimes against women, which stand as “grave threats to progress.”
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