Tag: Gender Imbalance

Gender imbalance among UNGA speakers disheartening — Muhammad-Bande

Sep 30, 2019

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by

Bayo Millz

in World

President of the UN General Assembly (PGA), Amb. Tijani Muhammad-Bande, has described as disheartening the gender imbalance in the list of speakers at the just-concluded General Debate. In his remarks at the closing session on Monday, Muhammad-Bande said only 16 out of the 192 speakers at the forum were women. He said: “The General Assembly…