Intl Women's Day: Empower Rural Women – End Hunger and Poverty
March 9, 2012| |
The International Women's Day was celebrated on March 8, 2012, bearing the theme Empower Rural Women – End Hunger and Poverty. According to Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), this "battle cry" is relevant to the first and third Millennium Development Goals, which are about the eradication of severe hunger and poverty as well as the promotion of gender equality and empowerment. He also said that these goals cannot be achieved without giving attention to the world's biodiversity without which we would all be economically, socially, and culturally poorer.
Read the complete media release at http://www.cbd.int/doc/speech/2012/sp-2012-03-08-iwd-en.pdf.
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