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Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, UN Undersecretary-General and Executive Director of UNFPA

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin is a United Nations Undersecretary-General and Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

Girls can drive development

Girls participate in a mentoring session in Niamey, part of the Action for Adolescent Girls initiative, in June 2014. Picture: UNFPA/Satvika Chalasani

Adolescent girls can play an enormous role in bringing about sustainable development. But for too long their rights and potential have been overlooked by world leaders, and this has held back development and equality. At last international momentum is building …