Decade’s largest global Conference on Women and Girls begins tomorrow

More than 3,000 delegates including policy-makers, advocates and world leaders representing over 150 countries will convene for the Women Deliver 2013 Conference at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) here, tomorrow, the decade's largest meeting focused on girls' and women's health and rights.

Malaysia is the first Asian country to be given the honour to host the three-day global conference, which was previously held in London and Washington D.C.

According to a statement from the conference's Malaysia Media Secretariat today, the conference would feature more than 100 sessions with talks by some of the world's leading voices, calling for action to ensure that girls and women are prioritised in the lead-up to the 2015 Millennium Development Goal deadline and beyond.


Read more at National News Agency of Malaysia

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