{"id":606,"date":"2021-12-02T11:46:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T11:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=606"},"modified":"2022-02-09T12:08:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T12:08:09","slug":"33-21-un-women-new-executive-director-sima-bahous-of-jordan-plus-an-appearance-by-melinda-french-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"#33-21 UN Women New Executive Director \u2026 Sima Bahous of Jordan &#8211; plus an appearance by Melinda French Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UN Women&#8217;s 3rd Executive Director was appointed in September 2021, shortly after the Generation Equality conferences raised over $40 billion US dollars for the agency&#8217;s work. Program includes her presentation to the UN Security Council on Women, Peace and Security, plus a Day Against Violence Against Women greeting and a joint interview with philanthropist Melinda French Gates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Host(s):<\/strong>\u00a0Frieda Werden<br><strong>Featured Speakers\/Guests:<\/strong>\u00a0Sima Sami Bahous has a doctorate in communications and a lot of experience working for NGOs, UN organizations, foundations, government, and more. She is a strong advocate of spending more money on supporting women and less on the military. Melinda French Gates is co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which donated 2.1 billion to Generation Equality and helped shape its events and projects. She is a strong advocate for the utility of good data.<br><br><strong>Credits:<\/strong>\u00a0Audio courtesy of UN Media; editing and narration by Frieda Werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Comments:<\/strong>\u00a0For links to original UN videos email wings@wings.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1EWyTF6ql4eBBv9euLH_WY7EcqukJmJOg\/view?usp=drive_web\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1EWyTF6ql4eBBv9euLH_WY7EcqukJmJOg\/view?usp=drive_web<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Women&#8217;s 3rd Executive Director was appointed in September 2021, shortly after the Generation Equality conferences raised over $40 billion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,4,9,19,39,27,35,36],"tags":[75,94,74,68,92,76],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-all","category-archive","category-environment","category-feminism","category-health","category-news","category-politics","tag-activism","tag-environment","tag-feminism","tag-health","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}