In 1953, the United Nations elected India’s Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit as the 8th President of the General Assembly, the first woman elected to the role. A prominent politician and active Indian ...

General and High Representative of the UN and Chairman of the UN’s Administrative and Budgetary Committee in 1997-1998 that approved Kofi Annan’s first reform budget.

With efforts towards gender equality stalling, voting in a first female head of the UN would provide powerful representation ...

Established in 1945 under the Charter of the United Nations ... the Assembly considers current issues during high-level thematic debates organized by the President of the General Assembly.