Botswana welcomes the important milestones achieved in the strengthening of t...

Botswana welcomes the important milestones achieved in the strengthening of the UN's operational activities for development, improvement of funding for development related activities, as well as strengthening the institutional framework for the gender architecture through the creation of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women. The creation of this entity constitutes an important step in fulfilling the commitments undertaken at the 1995 Beijing Conference on Women, whose main objective was the promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women.