UN chief calls for empowerment of women as “agents of change”
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a message to mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, has called for the empowerment of women as “agents of change” to address pressing problems.
In poor parts of the world today, women still risk death in the process of giving life and girls are attacked on their way to school, said Ban. “We can only address these problems by empowering women as agents of change,” he said while citing positive changes within the UN system.
