The United Nations General Assembly has followed a decision to designate June 24 because the International Day of Women in Diplomacy. “As girls climb the diplomatic ranks, they may be outnumbered through their male peers, along with at United Nations Headquarters, in which they constitute handiest one 5th of the everlasting representative,” Thilmeeza Hussain, Maldives Ambassador to the United Nations, stated on Monday at the same time as introducing the decision. The UN reaffirmed that the participation of girls, on same phrases with men, in any respect degrees of decision-making is critical to the success of sustainable development, peace and democracy.
“Women operating in international relations have made essential contributions to shaping the multilateral machine we’ve got inherited today. Yet, regardless of the glaring contributions of girls to international relations and multilateral decision-making, they stay underrepresented in senior diplomatic positions,” Abdulla Shahid, president of the 76th consultation of the United Nations General Assembly, who presided over the adoption of the decision, stated. “They nonetheless go through the deep-rooted legacies of sexism, which prevent their expert development and difficult to understand their contributions and achievements,” the Maldivian flesh presser added.
As the UN marks ‘International Day of Women in Diplomacy’, here’s a listing of pinnacle Indian lady diplomats:
Sneha Dubey
Sneha Dubey, India’s first secretary on the United Nations, is an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of 2012 batch. Dubey is stated to have finished her training from Goa and went to Pune Fergusson College for better studies. She later went to Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) for MPhil in global Studies. Dubey made headlines and acquired substantial reward on social media for her reaction to the-then Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan raking up the problem of Kashmir in his cope with to the UN General Assembly in September remaining yr.
Ruchira Kamboj
Senior diplomat Ruchira Kamboj changed into on Tuesday appointed India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations. She will be successful T S Tirumurti. Kamboj, a 1987-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, is presently serving as India’s envoy to Bhutan – first woman to do so.
Vidisha Maitra
Indian diplomat Vidisha Maitra, a 2009-batch IFS officer, helped India make a great stride while she changed into elected to the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly in November 2020. Her success got here at a time while India changed into making ready to take a seat down withinside the UN Security Council as a non-everlasting member for a two-yr time period in January 2021. Maitra, who’s stated to have gained the ‘excellent education officer’ gold medal for her overall performance for the duration of education, has formerly served as undersecretary (policy, planning, and research) on the Ministry of External Affairs.
Poulomi Tripathi
A former counsellor in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN, Poulomi Tripathi is a 2007-batch IFS officer who changed into lauded through many for calling out faux information because the then Pakistan Ambassador confirmed a photo of a woman from Palestine to the meeting and claimed that it changed into from Kashmir.