Global Leaders' Meeting on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre) delivers a speech at the Global Leaders Meeting on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment - A Commitment to Action. Also present at table, from left: Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcukva, Executive Director UN Women; Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the Republic of Kenya; and Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China. The meeting was organized by UN Women and the People's Republic of China, as part of the United Nations Summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, aiming for global leaders to commit themselves to the accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995), and achievement of gender equality by 2030.