IPU President Saber Chowdhury has accepted an invitation to join a high-level group on Every Woman Every Child, a global movement led by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The initiative champions the health of women, children and adolescents. The group will advise the Secretary-General on the implementation of the Global Strategy on Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health. The group’s members comprise leaders from governments around the world, the international business community, philanthropists and prominent young people.
The Global Strategy includes a roadmap aimed at ending all preventable deaths within a generation and ensuring the well-being of everyone at risk. It highlights that the health of women, children and adolescents is critically important to almost every area of human development and progress and has a direct impact on the successful attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by world leaders in 2015. IPU has made a strong commitment to the Global Strategy to build on and further expand the contribution of parliaments in improving women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health everywhere. “I am delighted to have been invited to join the High Level Advisory Group to the UNSG and look forward to contributing to its work,” said President Chowdhury. “Parliaments and their members are key to delivering on the health challenges which Every Woman Every Child is addressing. I look forward to promoting their role in this critical issue.”
