Participants at the Commonwealth's first ever Women's Forum were today urged to ramp-up the pressure on leaders to take action on gender discrimination.
Delivering the keynote remarks, Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, stressed the importance of complete commitment to the achievement of the recently ratified Sustainable Development Goals, which include gender equality and the empowerment of women by 2030.
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