DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 28JAN11 - William H. Gates III (FLTR), Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA, and Melinda French Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA, and David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, are captured during the session 'Polio: Eradicating an Old Reality Once and for All' at the Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 28, 2011. Copyright by World Economic Forum swiss-image.ch/Photo by Remy Steinegger

Jutta Urpilainen, Commissioner for International Partnership, participates in an event with EIB President Nadia Calviño and Melinda Gates on Global Gateway/fighting polio and supporting national health systems at the European Union Delegation in Washington, DC during the 2024 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group in Washington, DC, 18 April 2024.

Minister Kaag ontving vandaag Melinda Gates. Zij onderstreepten het belang van gezamenlijke inzet voor vrouwenrechten in ontwikkelingslanden. ‘When she is educated, her life and the life of her children improve.’ Gates was blij met de verhoging van het Nederlandse budget voor ontwikkelingssamenwerking.

Minister Kaag ontving vandaag Melinda Gates. Zij onderstreepten het belang van gezamenlijke inzet voor vrouwenrechten in ontwikkelingslanden. ‘When she is educated, her life and the life of her children improve.’ Gates was blij met de verhoging van het Nederlandse budget voor ontwikkelingssamenwerking.

"This is one of most exciting days of my life. We’re making a historic commitment to improve millions of women's lives. "Every mother and father wants to bring every good thing to a child before having another." Background On 11 July 2012 the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosted a groundbreaking summit to halve the current number of women and girls in the world's poorest countries without access to contraception, but who wish to avoid pregnancy or space their children. To find out more: www.dfid.gov.uk/fpsummit Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development Terms of use This image is posted under a Creative Commons - Attribution Licence, in accordance with the Open Government Licence. You are free to embed, download or otherwise re-use it, as long as you credit the source as Russell Watkins/Department for International Development'.

Minister Kaag ontving vandaag Melinda Gates. Zij onderstreepten het belang van gezamenlijke inzet voor vrouwenrechten in ontwikkelingslanden. ‘When she is educated, her life and the life of her children improve.’ Gates was blij met de verhoging van het Nederlandse budget voor ontwikkelingssamenwerking.

London, 11th July 2012. Melinda Gates, speaking at the London Summit on Family Planning. Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development.

Jutta Urpilainen, Commissioner for International Partnership, participates in an event with EIB President Nadia Calviño and Melinda Gates on Global Gateway/fighting polio and supporting national health systems at the European Union Delegation in Washington, DC during the 2024 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group in Washington, DC, 18 April 2024.

Left to Right: Dr. Tore Godal, Gary Darmstadt, Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, Dr. John P. Holdren, Ms. Melinda Gates, Secretary Clinton, Dr. Peter A. Singer, Administrator Shah

Melinda Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Dr. Fred Sai, distinguished Ghanaian physician and Honorary Co-Chair, greet each other. Photo by Sam Hurd