World’s Women at the Centre of Achieving the MDGs

Invited by UNIFEM to the side event at the United Nations High-Level Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly 2010 (“MDGs Summit”) in New York, the ACECI Director has called upon participants to join the 3,500 grassroots organisations supporting the campaign to "Translate the MDGs into a model bill on poverty reduction".

This call for the adoption of anti-poverty laws has been relayed by Senegal's Minister of State in charge of gender and relations with African and foreign women's organisations, Ms Awa Ndiaye. She has cited the new Senegalese law on parity as an example.

Were present at this side-event co-organised by Denmark, Senegal and UNIFEM

• Mr Soren Pind
  Minister for Development Cooperation, Denmark
• Ms Awa Ndiaye
  Minister of State, Minister of Gender and Relations with African and Foreign Women’s Associations
• Ms Inès Albeldi
  Executive Director of UNIFEM
• Ms Navanethem Pillay
  United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Ms Geena Davis
  Actrice; Academy Award-Winning Actor and founder, See Jane