Inside Geneva: Can a woman lead the UN?
On Inside Geneva this week, we look at the race to be the next UN secretary general. Is it time for a change?
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Susana Malcorra, candidate for UN Secretary-General 2016: “I am deeply convinced this is a moment that requires a different type of leadership, and we have tested leadership nine leaders throughout 80 years that were all men.”
Geneva recently hosted three of the candidates – we hear from them. What are their plans?
Rebeca Grynspan, candidate for Secretary-General: “My criteria of success as secretary general is that nobody will ask me again: ‘Where is the UN?’ If that question continues we will be irrelevant.”
What are the UN’s challenges?
María Fernanda Espinosa, candidate for Secretary-General: “I think the UN does not suffer from a crisis of purpose or principles enshrined in the Charter. It suffers from a crisis of delivery of impact, of accountability, and of inclusion.”
And what does it still have to offer?
Michelle Bachelet, candidate for Secretary-General: “Multilateralism has a lot of problems, but if you didn’t have a multilateral system, children in the refugee camps wouldn’t have vaccines. People displacement wouldn’t have support. So there’s a lot of things that multilateralism has done and we need to improve.”
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