Ms. Bokova is Director-General of UNESCO and a candidate for UN Secretary-General. She was nominated by Bulgaria on February 11, 2016. Ms. Bokova shared her vision for the role of UN Secretary-General with the audience and ...read more

This article was originally published by Al-Ahram Weekly Boutros Boutros-Ghali believed in parliamentarians, and they believed in him, writes Shazia Rafi Two days after my appointment as the first woman secretary-general of ...read more

This article by Shazia Rafi was originally published by Women’s Media Center 2016 has started with two strong campaigns—by some 48 governments, led by Colombia’s female ambassador to the United Nations, and by ...read more

This article by Shazia Rafi was originally published on Dawn.com CHILDHOOD picnics in the Shalamar Gardens always turned into family history lessons. “Ali Mardan Khan, governor of Lahore requisitioned our ancestor’s land ...read more

A new report from UN Women concludes that peace is more easily achieved and more durable when women are included in the peacemaking process, and calls for “the full involvement of women in all efforts for maintaining peace ...read more

ON Sept 25, 2015 Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif joined other heads of governments at the UN to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which chart the way to a more sustainable future. The SDGs lay out the path ahead ...read more

As a relentless remake of the Middle East and North Africa has been taking place, mass displacements of populations have also been occurring. And more chaos is ahead, says the United States Defense Intelligence chief, Lt. ...read more

Remarkably after a yearlong effort by environmental health advocates, air quality has been embedded in the new set of universal development goals for a sustainable future. Since an estimated 60 percent of the global ...read more