A Comprehensive Response to Rural Women and Girls’ Economic Empowerment Speech delivered by UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet’s at CSW Side Event on ‘Accelerating progress towards the economic empowerment of rural women’, co-organized by UN Women, FAO, IFAD and WFP, Tuesday 28 February 2012.         Excellencies, Honourable Ministers, Heads of Delegations, Colleagues and Friends, Let me start by thanking FAO, IFAD and WFP for co-organizing … [Read more...]