Fréchette

Louise Fréchette

Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to leave UN in April

16 December 2005
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette, appointed to the newly created post in 1998, will be leaving the United Nations early next year to become Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Canada, the UN spokesman announced today.
Louise Fréchette

Fréchette says women’s equality crucial to achieving development goals

12 September 2005
Gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to achieving major development goals as well as many of the commitments made at all major United Nations conferences and summits since the 1990s, UN Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette said in anticipation of this week’s World Summit in New York.