Kamala Harris to make UN debut as Veep at gender equality summit
NEW YORK: Kamala Harris is due to make her United Nations debut as US vice-president next week when she addresses an annual meeting on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.
Harris will speak at the virtual 65th commission on the status of women on March 16, US ambassador to the UN Linda ThomasGreenfield said on Monday, adding Washington would also join a UN group of friends for the elimination of violence against women and girls.”
“We all believe and understand that when women do better, countries do better,” Thomas-Greenfield said. “It is time we translate our noble commitments into concrete action.”
She said the US would take a leading role to combat sexual and gender-based violence around the world and to push for more women to be included in peace talks globally.
President Joe Biden intends to restore the UN population fund funding, which was withdrawn under former president Trump’s administration because it said it “supports, or participates in the management of, a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.”
Biden’s dogs sent home after ‘biting incident’ President Joe Biden has sent his two dogs back to his family home in Wilmington, Delaware, after the younger of the two German Shepherds was involved in a “biting incident” with a White House security agent. Threeyear-old Major, who was adopted in November 2018 from an animal shelter, had been displaying aggressive behaviour including jumping, barking and charging at White House staff and security, CNN reported.