'Financial crisis should not impede women welfare projects'
New York (PTI): UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the nations to ensure that the current financial crisis do not impede funding of women welfare programmes.
"The global financial crisis is forcing all of us to save and cut costs where we can. But our work for the women of the world must continue undiminished," Ban emphasised at the presentation of the 2008 International Award for the Health and Dignity of Women by Americans for UNFPA.
The recipients of this year's award, which honours exemplary contributions to women's health and the promotion of women's rights, were four American women from the corporate sector and activists from Madagascar, Mexico and Nepal.