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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.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, 63 stock exchanges around the world will host a bell ringing ceremony to raise awareness of the pivotal role the private sector can play in advancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality and women’s empowerment. The series of 63 events was kicked off in New York with a bell ringing at Nasdaq in collaboration with UN Women. NASDAQ

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), briefs journalists on the main conclusions of the flagship report entitled Gender Equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

A new report reveals that “in many areas progress remains slow to achieve the SDGs by 2030” and even where progress is made, “it may not reach the women and girls who need it most and the ones that are being left furthest behind,” according to the Executive Director of UN-Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. UNIFEED

United Nations Official Commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

The Chef de Cabinet of the UN Secretary-General, Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, told the Security Council “it is simply unacceptable that in 2017, only 3 per cent of our peacekeepers, the most visible face of the United Nations, are women.” UNIFEED