Nanette Braun is chief of communications and advocacy at U.N. Women, the global champion for women and girls and newest member of the United Nations family. She has worked on women's rights for the past 10 years. Before joining the U.N., Nanette worked as a journalist, mainly for print media in her native Germany and abroad, with a focus on humanitarian and development issues.
Sustainable development should reduce women’s poverty and lower the harmful impact on health and the environment, writes Nanette Braun of U.N. Women in this exclusive guest opinion as part of Rio+Solutions.