YORK Wholesale Dodgers Jerseys , Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales, and top officials and ambassadors to the U.N. on Thursday took time out during the ongoing annual high-level debate of the U.N. General Assembly to play a football match to support Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's campaign UNITE to End Violence Against Women.


Wearing dark blue, the U.N. Development Program's color, and orange, the UNITE campaign color Cheap Dodgers Jerseys , more than 20 top officials -- including the foreign minister of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Nicola Poposki, and two women members of parliament from Norway, Karin Andersen and Lene Vagslid -- ran through the Roosevelt Island Soccer Field, close to the U.N. headquarters in New York.


They were joined by the ambassador of Austria to the U.N. and diplomats from Bosnia and Herzegovina Wholesale Los Angeles Dodgers Jerseys , Brazil, Lichtenstein and the United States.


Poposki and Vagslid's orange team clinched the match 7-6 against President Morales and Andersen's blue team.


"Football is a global passion and a great way to win hearts and minds, conveying the message that 'real men don't hit'," said U.N. assistant secretary-general and UNDP director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Heraldo Munoz Cheap Los Angeles Dodgers Jerseys , highlighting some daunting statistics from the region where two out of three women have suffered domestic violence at some point in life.


Munoz was match organizer and orange team captain.


"Leadership and political determination are critical to end violence against women, and action and resources need to follow," said the U.N. under-secretary-general and UNDP associate administrator, Rebeca Grynspan.


"Governments must lead by example, showing zero tolerance to all forms of gender violence and adopting and enforcing laws to address and punish all forms of violence against women and girls Fernando Valenzuela Dodgers Jersey , in line with international human rights standards," Grynspan.