On the Occasion of the 63rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Side Event on WOMEN’S EQUALITY AND EMPOWERMENT ADVANCES THE CULTURE OF PEACE Organized by Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to the United Nations In collaboration with Global Movement for the Culture of Peace (GMCoP)
“We should always remember that without peace, development is impossible, and without development, peace is not achievable, but without women, neither peace nor development is conceivable.”
Keynote Speech* by Ambassador Anwarul K. CHOWDHURY Former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations; Initiator of UNSCR 1325 as President of UN Security Council and Founder of the Global Movement for the Culture of Peace (GMCoP)
at the P R O G R A M M E on PEACE, WOMEN, SECURITY & SECULARISM presented by the The Light Millennium and Co-Organizer/Co-Sponsors New York, 11 April 2019