UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a message to mark the upcoming International Women’s Day on March 8, has called for empowerment of women as “agents of change” to address pressing problems.

In poor parts of the world today, women still risk death in the process of giving life and girls are attacked on their way to school, Ban said.

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