Azerbaijan to attend session of ECOSOC Commission in New York

  10 March 2014    Read: 813
Azerbaijan to attend session of ECOSOC Commission in New York
Chairperson of the State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs of Azerbaijan Hijran Huseynova will participate in the fifty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) that will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from March 10–21.

Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world will attend the session. Huseynova will deliver a speech at the event.

The session will focus on challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls, access to and participation of women and girls in education, training, science and technology, including the promotion of women’s equal access to full employment and decent work.

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