High-Level Panellists Speak on Ending Child Marriage
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (on panel, centre) speaks at the high-level discussion on “Ending Child Marriage”, held as part of today’s first-ever International Day of the Girl Child. With Mr. Ban on the panel (from left): Geeta Rao Gupta, Deputy Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF); Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA); Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs of Bangladesh; Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Chair of the Elders, founders of “Girls not Brides”; Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women; and Ghaicha Salamatou Issoufa, youth activist from Niger.