Executive Director Mlambo-Ngcuka,
Recent decades mark a historic paradigm shift: women’s rights and gender equality became recognized and supported by all nations in the UN’s Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, four UN Women’s World Conferences, and the MDGs.
Regrettably, progress is problematic. Complacency to seize opportunities and to fulfill aspirations and needs are intolerable.
UN Women is needed as a powerful voice and agent to galvanize greater action. As Director of UN Women, your continued strong stewardship of the mission is indispensable -- to ensure equality and opportunity for women are strengthened in Post-2015 Development Goals; that women and girls benefit from security and development in their communities; that violence and trafficking are treated as criminal; and that culture and values evolve in current generations to protect the rights of billions of women and girls.
