Devex's "The Development Newswire" quotes a number of leaders in the international community about International Women's Day, observed annually on March 8. "The message by U.N. Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet on International Women's Day encapsulated a rallying cry for this year among gender advocates: to end discrimination and violence against women and girls," the news service writes, adding, "At the 5th Annual Women's Empowerment Principles Event in New York, [U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon] said: 'We must not rest until we end violence against women and ensure women's full political and economic participation worldwide.'" The article also quotes U.N. Development Programme Administrator Helen Clark, World Bank Managing Director Caroline Anstey, and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim (Morden, 3/8).