UN Women Deputy Executive Director Puri plants tree for environment and women
Tree-planting ceremony in Commemoration of World Environment Day and the Beijing Platform for Action+20
24.06.2014 |
Puri planted the tree in Nairobi, Kenya, at the first-ever UN Environment Assembly meeting for the High-Level Gender and Environment Forum. She said: "by planting this tree, we call on the world’s attention to the issue of women and the environment".
Read the speech here.
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