UNGA cancels Beijing session

By Grace Obike and Omowaleayo Wale-Olaitan, Abuja

THE Federal Government said on Tuesday the much anticipated 23rd special session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on the Beijing implementation action plan on women has been cancelled due to coronavirus infections.

The session, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW64), was earlier scheduled for between March 9 and 20.

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Minister of Women Affairs Dame Pauline Tallen, who stated this, added that the 25th anniversary of Beijing meeting was cancelled due to the outbreaks in China, New York and other countries that have claimed hundreds of lives.

She spoke in Abuja at the Osasu Show Foundation’s news conference organised to inaugurate the foundation’s women and girls empowerment programme.