United Nations Launches the UNiTE Campaign

The United Nations (UN) secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, has urged African all African leaders to show more political leadership by emphasising an end to male violence against women and girls in their home countries by endorsing the UNiTE campaign.

The UNiTE campaign was originally launched in 2008 and was introduced to bring in a number of UN agencies to work together in ending gender-based violence around the world.

The African component of the campaign was launched at the summit, and in a message read by the Under secretary-general, Abdoulie Janneh, on the secretary-general's behalf, Janneh called on African leaders to take concrete steps to end impunity for violence against women and girls.

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