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UNs High-Level Appointments Should be on Gender Rotation, not Geographical Rotation

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 04 (IPS) - The UN’s high-level appointments have mostly been on the basis of “equitable geographical rotation” with Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean taking turns.But a proposal for future appointments and for candidates for elective office-– based on gender rotation is gaining ground against a world body which is mostly male-oriented even at its highest echelons, with nine all-male Secretaries-General (UNSG) and only 4 women out of 78 presidents of the General Assembly. ....

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Building an inclusive, networked UN


Building an inclusive, networked UN
Jun 27,2021 - Last updated at Jun 27,2021
By María Fernanda Espinosa and Danilo Türk
QUITO/MADRID Great-power competition, the troubling rise of xenophobic nationalism, existential environmental threats, and the ongoing COVID-19 onslaught present major global governance challenges. Against this backdrop, world leaders have tasked United Nations Secretary General António Guterres with recommending steps to advance the far-reaching commitments contained in last year’s so-called UN75 Declaration, in which the General Assembly pledged to ensure “the future we want”.
The secretary general’s much-anticipated report, Our Common Agenda, is due this September, and it would benefit from a follow-through vehicle to weigh the report’s recommendations and deliberate on and adopt his best ideas. We therefore support the proposal for a World Summit on Inclusive Global Governance involving a wide range of participants. ....

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