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Rural women's empowerment critical to UN Sustainable Development Agenda – Ban

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UN News Centre

Publication Date
2016-10-17

15 October 2016 – Marking the International Day of Rural Women, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed that rural women are critical to the success of almost all of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as they all “have gender equality and women's empowerment at their core.”

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