UN to Hold Global Conference on Women in 2015

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and current president of the General Assembly Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser have proposed the idea of holding a global conference on women's issues in 2015.

The last women's summit was held in Beijing in 1995.

"Given that women make up half of humanity and given the importance and relevance of women's issues for global progress, it is high time that such a world conference is convened," said the announcement read out by Nihal Saad, spokesperson for the General Assembly president.

The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 was preceded by three world conferences - in 1975 in Mexico City, in 1980 in Copenhagen and in 1985 in Nairobi.