"A substantial portion of our national budget is allocated to health, education, infrastructure, human resource development, women and youth empowerment…In addition, we remain committed to providing quality life for all Botswana.
“Iceland is proud to support UN Women in the campaign to celebrate Beijing+20. We have partnered with Suriname to lead a friends' group of countries to galvanize support to promote gender equality and to commemorate the 20th anniversary. We call on Member States to join this effort and take concrete actions on the 12 themes of the Platform for Action.
“In Iceland and the other Nordic Countries the revolution in women's education and the high level of female participation in the labor market has been the basis of welfare and economic prosperity.”
“Terrorist sectarian groups such as Qaida, ISIL and the terrorist Hezbollah along with its extensions and counterparts, recruit fighters from East and West to perpetrate horrific terrorist acts. The young and the old are killed, women are taken as war bounty, families are displaced and privacy is violated, the objective being to undermine security, propagate anarchy and topple regimes.”
“We shall persevere in this drive to preserve the position of the Kingdom of Bahrain, classified by UNDP's Human Development Report (which is based on objective statistical criteria among which the most important are health care, education, per capita income and non discrimination against women) in the category of ‘countries with very high human development”; a status achieved through hard and continuous work.”
“The role of women in achieving sustainable development - both at the level of civil society and at the level of political leadership - has proven to be an important factor in the creation of an atmosphere of tolerance and the choice for dialogue, instead of resorting to violence.”
“[A]s a landlocked and least developed country, the Lao PDR remains vulnerable and still faces numerous challenges, especially in achieving some MDG targets, including reducing child malnutrition, ensuring gender equality in education, reducing child and maternal mortality, and minimizing the impacts of Unexploded Ordnances dropped during the war.”
“In addition to climate change, our support for the SDGs includes, but not limited to: the inclusion of peace and effective institutions, oceans management, health, education, energy security and Gender equality.”
