"PHUMZILE MLAMBO-NGCUKA"

Secretary-General’s Special Representative hails Somalia’s recent progress while cautioning against illusions about future challenges at 8352nd meeting.

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

In his final briefing to the Security Council, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Michael Keating, said the threat that “Al Shabaab and other extremists will derail progress” remains as the top challenge for the country. UNIFEED

During her visit to Somalia, UN Women chief Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka hailed the political empowerment of women in the South West State of the country. UNSOM

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women, along with Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator, brief press on the ongoing Counter-Terrorism Conference.

High-level meeting on peacebuilding and sustaining peace - Interactive Dialogues 3 & 4, General Assembly, 72nd session

Actress and Activist Sienna Miller told a session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women that the #MeToo / Time’s Up movement “challenges the loneliness and isolation” women have felt, “whatever our situations,” adding “we are not alone any longer.” UNIFEED

Ending male-dominated power dynamics underpinning violence, discrimination, in everyone’s interest, Secretary-General tells Women’s Commission at opening of 62nd session.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, “In Latin America, France, India, the Middle East, China and here in the United States, from ‘MeToo’ to ‘Time’s Up’ to ‘The Time is Now’, women and girls are calling out abusive behaviour and discriminatory attitudes.” UNIFEED

United Nations Observance of International Women’s Day 2018. Time Is Now: Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives. Remarks by the Secretary-General.