Minister Maláčová reaffirmed the crucial role of the Beijing Declaration and Action Platform in her speech

02.10.2020 / 03:14 | Aktualizováno: 02.10.2020 / 03:19

Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Jana Maláčová, spoke during the high-level meeting to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, which took place on October 1, 2020 on the margins of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly. The main theme of the event was the “accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls”. Close to 180 speakers, including the President of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly Volkan Bozkir, UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the executive director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngucka, expressed their support for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, which is being threatened by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.