UN under growing pressure to appoint a woman leader

[Thom Little]

Since 1945, the world’s top diplomatic job has been held by three Europeans, two Africans, one Latin American, but no women.

Kofi Annan is due to step down as UN Secretary-General at the end of the year, or even earlier, and women’s groups have begun lobbying for a woman to succeed him.

Their campaign has taken on new urgency with the recent announcement that Mr Annan’s deputy, Louise Fréchette, appointed in 1998 partly because she was a woman, will leave in April to return to her native Canada. “Starting with the Charter of the UN, it has always been among their goals to reach gender parity,” Taina Bien-Aime of the women’s rights group Equality Now, which is leading the effort, said.


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[MichiganVote]

1. Good for the women. The most effective peacemakers of....mankind.

[Wilms]

2. Take Hillary.

It's not like she could get elected POTUS.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Link?

Your current one posts in GD.