Or on instagram or on you tube we want you to jump into the comments section and you too could be part of the very important conversations or the way through the week we start with an unscientific survey of Global Citizens looking at the United Nations on the 75th anniversary this is what they tell us. I think the principles that guided them established the un as an organization are certainly ones that we need and todays landscape however i do feel that the execution is a bit lacking i think issues such as the syrian israeli conflict the war in syria poverty corruption on a worldwide stage do need to be addressed in a more pressing matter my favorite s. T. G. Is 17 partnerships for their goals because it truly reflects why they you when they exist and what it has achieved so far it also reminds us that in this globalized war all the institutions like the uighur and helps to facilitate dialogues between Different Actors to achieve Sustainable Development i mean anything and has accomplished great things in the past 75 years however i think its 2 percent. Interest saying this. And gender inequality its important for us to not forget that happened. In a peacekeeping mission which turned out to be one of the biggest. In regard to accomplishments i believe the new u. N. Cannot be matched by almost any other entity in the world because of the numerous places and events that they would hope to out the world currently according to Amnesty International kazakhstan and other predominately muslim in the groups and using china are under intrusive surveillance arbitrary detention and for indoctrination which are violations of basic human rights i believe that the Security Council should be glad to do these violations and take more drastic measures so my thoughts on this turn to 5th anniversary of the United Nations says that its definitely better to have the u. N. Than not to have it to be back in an Article International system would be definitely counterproductive for human rights promotion and for the fight against Climate Change now more crucial than ever with an example of the cataclysmic events that come in the future for humanity. We are joined by 2 powerful United Nations women a mean a mommy to Melissa Fleming and lena towel of out what do you wish to official job title. The official title is deputy secretary general so i support actually general and realizing the vision that he came to the u. N. With promoting many many frameworks. And today most especially. Our agenda 20 so every day just trying to lift and to bring and to convene and ensure that we can help countries the most bend runnable of our people that sunshine in our chart that we the peoples you know trying to make them connect with the life of peace. In really tough times that is a also we felt this upcoming u. I. Not easy on t. V. All of the time elizabeth told of our. Well i lead communications for the u. N. Which is a its a really exciting job but its also challenging because as we heard from those wonderful young people who are just expressing themselves about the u. N. I mean how do you describe that uns work and also our aims and our goals for a better world in terms that people really understand you know we are full of information data statistics about human lives and human suffering around the world and my job is to communicate in a way that people to get people to care and most importantly to get the people of the world to act because were all in this together. So i mean its so difficult to look at 75 years not just pick cherry pick nuggets that weenie meat the u. S. Pope has full and made it very special in terms of a highlight belief you could bring what i need to think about is for some time now what would it be what will be high not from. Where for me thats worked at the grassroots with people i think of the 4 year journey that culminated in 2 things for us that we got the Sustainable Development goals which is a complete paradigm shift im just doing a piece of development to all of it inclusive economies finishing off the m. D. C. And most especially the climate agreement so that all came at the same time the estee choose the placeholder that was the climate Paris Agreement i would say for me thats that has been. The brightest spot in the 75 years of course you know. The fact that we even created the United Nations in 1945 was quite amazing and its still as relevant today as it was then miss a few years something that you just say that was an incredible moment for the United Nations what with that. Well i think i would echo ameena because i think what what the world needs are needed was is a global plan to solve the fundamental problems of the world inequality poverty injustice climate and what we have with the the global goals as we call them the Sustainable Development goals the s d gs is is really Global Solutions for the most burning problems of our world and its really a blueprint. You know its simple and complex at the same time but its wonderful to for as from a Communications Point of view because you really can. Capture peoples imagination around them and also to really design you know kind of forward looking future looking work plans in each one of the around each one of the goals so so yeah i mean it the u. N. Really has a vision and has a plan through these goals and you know the only thing is to drive implement implementation and thats what were really working on doing now we have lots of questions for you lets start with no ads and is serious about the future of fat africa and africans and manage these questions fini. According to my brother. They are trying to decide if africas labor force is going to be larger than chinas another interesting fact is that the Informal Sector presents i would think 80 percent of the total employment in Subsaharan Africa here in kenya so to some percent of our population is young people will produce a motion for their d. S. Jimmies im you know mohammed is what is the u. N. Doing to harness the potential of this Demographic Dividend even as we look for 2000000000 but but what i mean for us the African Union quite full what the blueprint for africa in the 2063 agenda the very 1st thing we did was align the 2030 agenda with the 2063 so we dont need another road map we dont need any more policies and more recently the framework for the common Free Trade Agreement in africa happened what the u. N. Does is to try to support that to take root by convening and leveraging the partnerships that are needed in business but also reminding governments of their responsibilities to ensure their economies are inclusive so even in this covert time as we look at the stimulus packages we try to see how we can support that include 2063 and of course the s. T. G. Within those agendas the other place that the u. N. Comes and is working really hard with the African Union and other International Actors to try to bring about peace in africa because without that you cant even begin to make investments and development so looking for Little Islands of stability with in very complex regions like this the hell and bringing investments to the great green wall bringing investments to women in agriculture bringing investments to the teeming youth and trying to ensure that theyre connected with the digital platforms that they need with the education now that we are a long way off and thats why the decade of action is going on change this week and its why that we know that individually and collectively is the only way were going to move forward and so you know what can i say eh. Country has got. A response that is needed and collectively within africa in each one of our Country Offices the uns footprint of that to support up and try to achieve that particularly young people particularly our entrepreneurs who are in africa and who are paving the way its really about an intergenerational transition for me i see the un at 75 and in this next new era we have to make that shift and why not weve got the energy and weve got the the results both them in africa of young people to take the forward. Myself as a Global Citizen i look at the Sustainable Development goals as a plan its like ok the world now has a plan business is a lot of citizens have a have a plan so now we have a plan weve got direction weve got focus but often as the u. N. Gauges with the world now theres a lot of criticism about the not being focused and not being things done things take so long to actually edge she. The mission or the game so if you work sort of standing back and looking critically at the u. N. Well the areas really over the last 25 years where he would just say that was not that was not the u. N. Its past. You know thats a really to replace challenging and tough question because you know i would have a big defender of of the u. N. And i think it gets very confusing for people because the u. N. Is only as good as its Member States allow it to be you know and we do it where the convening power we stand for good we stand for values we stand for. You know improving the world and we provide the mechanisms to do so that kind of space needs to be filled with political will it needs to be spaced with funding and if it is its amazing how much we can transform and how much we can achieve and so i think were where we failed. For you know to achieve peace or to make progress and some of the s. T. G. Is as we would have liked to and hope to and plan to im afraid i have to point the finger elsewhere and just say you know it is the political will wasnt there and you know i think thats one of the areas that we really its part of our responsibility to is to motivate and to drive and to to you know to bring governments to the table and to to get them to understand that it is in their own interest to work with us i mean it is not in might want to react to that. Yes i mean i want to jump in because femi what we are in is in a place where so many things that are not right and thats always been like that through the course of the 75 years that the United Nations and then there are all these aspirations that start from on chahta and theres sometimes a huge gap and sometimes an airing of it and it comes back again and i just really each day is to give hope and work to trying to close that gap between what is and it is pretty miserable sometimes what it needs to be now having said that i would say that its not so much about the for. Sailings and i would agree with melissa that you know the u. N. Is its Member States i would say that you know not being able to have. To have address the conflicts to really have been the real which is on womens shoulder. And i think that you know we could have done so much more as an International Community to bring an end to the conflicts and even if they had to happen did they have to last this long what could we have done more and i think thats what we have to search is that other different ways and i do think there are i think women in mediation need to be in the table we speak to the afghan talks right now and i think its amazing that they are happening but i want to ask how many women are at the table because in the end if were not bringing equality into everything that we do and were not getting the best of what we have been and were not getting to the end of where we need to get to so i think that the u. N. Is learning that some of its inadequacies and its failings are because as the world as Member States as communities were not as equal as we should and we dont have the best at the table were still left sided we need more women at the table and i think that we would then be able to address many of these gaps that people perceive we have now these are both working on covered 19 from different angles different perspectives on the Global Pandemic were in right now some of the conversation on each of these reflecting that lawyer matt thanks life for being on today show says how do you reconcile the discontent that some states have to multilateralism 19 isnt a clear example of states taking individual responses missa you guys are 2nd. This is something that keeps us awake at night you know it we its just so obvious that the only way we can get out of this pandemic that you know this is that this is a virus that knows no borders thats just clear it did make sense and it still does to a certain extent to close close borders close cities close apartment doors to contain the virus but at the same time we need Global Cooperation to overcome it and so thats what we are that were fighting for specially now as we move towards you know the future and looking at you know one of those you know Real Solutions and that is to to get a cope with 1000. 00 baxi it will not work this vaccine if we have maxine nationalism if richer countries decide they can on this vaccine if they get it 1st its only going to be for their citizens so where we are we have a Global Solution we have a facility called the kovacs facility that has that has a members to you know hundreds of countries around the world institutions scientists Civil Society who are coming together to build a vaccine and that includes also any future treatment and better diagnostics that are say that will be safe reliable and most importantly accessible available affordable for all this is our big push in the coming time. But. Thats just come yes and its my really really important its something that you wanted to bring to the table i mean and its code nations united it kind of burns together all of the big challenges that the u. N. Has right now im going to share this with out what it is they can see a little bit of where youre looking away your focus is for the next. 10 years the decade of action lets take a look. This is a very important story when our. Her pick her to a listener a weight of history on her. Where her earrings. You know where i am used to. Since the United Nations was found to him in race has never had to face a set of challenges im going through right now and the to gether. We can overcome the i am. One of the ways that we can do that in the United Nations kitty that we as the world continue that is fine looking at young people i mean. Has a question for you allison. Working with young women who are a few months and sort. Of the are disappointed there are. Certainly. Are. Really are are wishing for they. Disagree there in general what is the United Nations doing to ensure people who are. Who are. Now great question i think since the secretary general came on board he was reinforcing the importance the loyce of youth not just ticking the box to say that they were meeting with them but theyre acting at the table his 1st as of his youth and boy you strategy that we have and in everything that he does the table of young people who are at the helm of affairs in their countries and that we are supporting through the 131 Country Offices that we have around the world so the u. N. Is working in partnership with business with young people and its pushing to see more at the table more at the table more in the field more doing the things that we need to be doing on climate on business and social intrapreneur ship on womens issues lifting on many of the issues that we talk about on Technology Young people who are teaching other girls and looking for a 1000000 you know more to code so i think you know theres a lot thats being done is it enough no what we really need is urgency and scale and so we need to connect better because to chance things that we have and create this Huge Movement which is one of the reasons why we were trying to do the nations united. When people say well what is that x. And f d gs we can say well b s d gs are global goals to try to address the huge challenges that people in planet you know have today what does that mean in every country our footprint in every country tries to convene and to move that forward communicate to convene open the space those partners at someones that their favorite girl was goal 17 and those genuine partnerships even more important today. Listen one of the reasons why we know me so well internationally and on t. V. Is because of your work with the u. N. H. C. R. As a question here from a wrestler who is concerned about the refugee crisis and where we still are now after the when the refugee crisis is fast trying to like in 25 dogs who are covering it as a major hes moving his question. To some 30160 were 12000 people have died while trying to come to europe that makes us the deadliest refugee and the world counties 5000 people we the people we know about an hour youre actually hours in the area trying to help people but frankly i dont think its enough so my question is what are the concrete strategies to help these people and one where you start putting pressure on the European Union to finally find an acceptable solution to those and put them and told us last dying right at our borders. Thank you mary so for this question and your concern and i just i am always so touched that the people coming out and expressing themselves every time one. Child one woman one man dies on the Mediterranean Sea i am it breaks my heart every time and especially if it is due to a policy that is preventing people from being rescued no one trying to save their lives or to feed their children should have to die trying to reach the safety of europe we i know that u. N. H. C. R. Has been and i spent 10 years that u. N. H. C. R. Advocating. For refugees its still something thats very close to my heart. I know that u. N. H. C. R. Is working very hard and advocating with. The e. U. And the e. U. Is they on the at the brink of developing a new policy we have been pushing for. Disembarkment rescue at sea every single time every single boat and safe disembarkation and then an equitable distribution so that countries like greece or italy are not left alone and then the inevitable happens like what happened unless falls you know overcrowded terrible conditions people are you know really frustrated so it has to change and thank you very much for continuing to express yourself. If youre watching the screen at you can not have missed the fact that we have to incredibly powerful women at very high posts in the United Nations sitting talking with play no major about the u. N. Over the last 75. 00 yes i want to 2 going to be about and then we have a lot of attack so i want to start with this is that i mean it would be seen as fiction what does for your mind this is you think sworn in as deck of the staff of the secretary general of the United Nations number to to the top and the entire. Wow ok well i think about that im the oldest of 5 girls and but i grew up in a place where everybody thought we were we wouldnt amount to much. And i can give the amazing that you know you didnt aim for this but this is where you landed but i also think about my goodness the opportunity to showcase the ability of someone that comes from africa to do this job and to do it bringing so many more African Women european women latin american women into leadership positions in the in the u. N. As the secretary general has we have equity and so its amazing i mean its just really standing on the shoulders of women and being in a humble position to do so much more its amazing i mean its it is a job that every day you sort of are in or of where youre sitting and you are also aware of the responsibility to try the best that you can melissa says 247 this is what we you know wake up to. And do yeah it was amazing i mean i have to just say 1st of 5 girls and i dont know i was born to preach birth and i landed on my for been going up a. Typical l. To have existed like overachieving and the rest of that really else has to catch up with you melissa for you what gets you out of bed in the morning as the chop that you have you are big cheerleader for the year and what makes that were seeing. I just think it is a privilege to be communicating about how to create a better world frankly that you know i. Started my career wanting to be a journalist and. Moved into working for International Organizations and trying to not just expose the problems of the world but also to use communications in a way to communicate for a cause which you cant quite do in journalism but you can do if you work for the for the u. N. And the cause is is really you know to get people not just to understand all the problems of the world but to get them to care and to give them things to do and thats thats a real challenge gets me up in the morning obviously right now the impact of covert 19 on people is driving me and what drives me crazy is when i mean occasions go awry misinformation disinterment so were trying to you know get the best affirmation in front of people. A sharing well actually when im sitting at the 75 i mean im a ham and we are out of time thank you for spent sharing real experiences of you and at 75 is the fastest in a series of a stream on got thank you for watching us see you next time. It could be the biggest land grab in history. 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