High-Level Panellists Speak on Ending Child Marriage
Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs of Bangladesh, speaks at the high-level discussion on “Ending Child Marriage”, held as part of today’s first-ever International Day of the Girl Child. Pictured on the panel with Ms. Chaudhury, 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); Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Chair of the Elders, founders of “Girls not Brides”.