Promoting gender equality is a shared responsibility of society as a whole, requiring the participation of both men and women through concrete and sustained actions to build a safe, equitable, and enabling environment for women and girls.

Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese Mission to the UN, voiced concerns over recent terror attacks which have caused a large number of fatalities in the Sahel while addressing a UN Security Council session on the African region’s situation on June 5.