UNITED NATIONS (AN) — Leaders at a high-level U.N. meeting on Thursday lamented the world's slow progress over the past quarter-century since adopting a landmark agreement in Beijing for advancing the rights of women and girls.
The Beijing agreement of 1995 marked a new era in the fight for gender equality, but since then there has been "all in all, progress, but not yet enough, and too slow," Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of U.N. Women, told a meeting held on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.
