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With science ‘held back by a gender gap’, Guterres calls for more empowerment for women and girls

© UNDP India Women in India are being trained in plastic engineering.         10 February 2020 SDGs Fewer than 30 per cent of the world’s scientific researchers are women: that’s just one of the statistics showing how many challenges remain for women and girls in the scientific field, as the world marks the  International Day of Women and Girls in Science , on Tuesday. Pledging to end the gender imbalance in science, the UN  Secretary-General António Guterres  said in his   message  for the Day that “dismantling gender stereotypes” was an essential step. He highlighted the fact that “girls and boys perform equally well in science and mathematics, but only a fraction of female students in higher education choose to study sciences” and called for more supportive career development for women scientists and researchers. Science can bring life-changing benefits In her  statem...
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With Libyans now ‘fighting the wars of others’ inside their own country, UN envoy urges Security Council action to end violence

With Libyans now ‘fighting the wars of others’ inside their own country, UN envoy urges Security Council action to end violence UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Ghassan Salamé, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), briefs Security Council.         29 July 2019 Peace and Security Fighting in Libya “shows no signs of abating”, the head of the United Nations Support Mission (UNSMIL), told the  Security Council  on Monday, painting a grim picture of worsening humanitarian conditions, and warning that the instability and influx of foreign weapons is fueling a proxy war in the north African country. Briefing the Council  via video teleconference from the Libyan capital, Ghassan Salamé, who is also the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative, said: “The  war around Tripoli  has al...
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INTERVIEW: Guterres urges world leaders to ‘do what is necessary’ for peace and the planet

cretary-General António Guterres tours Abaco Island, Bahamas to witness at first-hand the devastation caused by HurricaneDorian.         20 September 2019 SDGs As global leaders prepare to convene in New York next week to debate the best way forward for the planet, Secretary-General  António Guterres   is urging them to “do what is necessary” to ensure that “we are able to solve the dramatic problems we face.”  The UN chief is urging Member States to bring “concrete plans” to the  74th session of the General Assembly , in hopes of bolstering the  Paris Agreement  on climate change, and the ambitious goals that are the bedrock of the  2030 Agenda  for Sustainable Development.   In a special interview for UN News conducted this week by newly-appointed head of Global Communications,...
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