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CSW59 – Young Women Crucial for Gender Equality Fight

For the 59th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, it seems as though the United Nations has heeded the call, "Nothing about us without us.

Siska from Rutgers WFP Indonesia: “Feminist issues are everyone’s issues, including men.”

“The only way that human rights can advance is if we all unite and embrace our differences,” Serena, 11, at CSW.

Did you know three women have been General Assembly President? The Dag Hammarskjöld Library shines the spotlight on these three women.

Empowered Women

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (India) - President of the 8th session of the General Assembly

Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit receiving the gavel from Lester B. Pearson (Canada), retiring President and UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld. (UN Photo/Marvin Bolotsky)

Angie Elisabeth Brooks (Liberia) - President of the 24th session of the General Assembly

Secretary-General U Thant, the President of the General Assembly, Angie E. Brooks (Liberia) and Constantin A. Stavropoulos. (UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata)

Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa (Bahrain) - President of the 61st session of the General Assembly

General Assembly President Haya Rashed Al Khalifa opens the General Assembly meeting on the Reports of the Third Committee. (UN Photo/Jenny Rockett)

Learn more about these remarkable women with resources available through the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.

Women Presidents of the General Assembly: An Uneven Past Avy Mallik UN Chronicle , Vol. 43,No. 3 , September-November 2006 (UN Headquarters users only. Permanent Missions please contact the Library if you do not have remote access.)