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Article: Women presidents of the General Assembly: an uneven past.
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- UN Chronicle
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- September 1, 2006
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WHEN SHEIKHA HAYA RASHED AL KHALIFA of Bahrain was appointed President of the sixty-first session of the UN General Assembly, she became only the third woman to occupy the prestigious post (see UN Chronicle Interview on page 10). The other two--Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India, who presided over the eighth session in 1953, and Angie Elisabeth Brooks of Liberia, over the twenty-fourth session in 1969--each had to chair during uncertain times for the United Nations. An examination of their pasts offers a telling portrait of how far the world Organization has gone in the last half century and how much further it has to go in promoting gender equality.
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