20 years after Beijing Conference: President Sommaruga calls in New York for pace of progress on gender equality to be stepped up
Bern, 27.9.2015 - Equality between men and women, active involvement of citizens in a sustainable development agenda and efforts to put in place effective, accountable institutions: President Simonetta Sommaruga spoke at events on these and other themes on the fringes of the Sustainable Development Summit in New York at the weekend. At a high-level meeting on gender equality – 20 years after the World Conference on Women in Beijing – President Sommaruga stressed that it was time to step up the pace of progress.