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UNwomens - can 2 women and 5 men truly change the UN

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UNwomens - can 2 women and 5 men truly change the UN Published on September 20, 2018 Chris Macrae Chris Macrae Following Unfollow UNWOMENS job creation agent at EconomistPoor.com 149 articles Like 0 Comment Write an article

For those of us who want our children to be the sustainability generation, the most exciting 21st c network hubbed through new york links in to changes Guterres has been making at the UN. To be clear we are not really talking about the politics between G195 nations, nor the UN peace forces ...

We are talking about whether the UN values the action networking of the half of the world aged under 30 for whom the sustainability goals have urgent meaning. So far this new century has seen rich old nations like USA and the Western Euro snuffing out from urgent attention -lets surround youth in fake media and under no circumstances free education to empower youth -let alone girls - to celebrate by doing.

In contrast, Wise Asians have been seeking edutech solutions to this but it involves celebrating lifelong teaching and learning as everyone's opportunity so that all communities thrive - now that we have 4000 times more mobile intelligence- will the western mindset dominated by standard exams, teachers unions and those whose certification monopolies put students in huge debt get out of the way to celebrate world record jobs creators in time?

Here is our vote for the 7 most exciting agendas world citizens have ever heard the human race =let alone New Yorkers - assemble

7 gender equality across nations, and their assemblies

6 care for borders the way mother nature would expect- why would a civilised species want any child to grow up a refugee? anyone who thinks our species can be sustainable while continuing the maddening exponential increase in spend on arms is either an arms salesman or a macroeconomist for hire to the highest bider

5 digital cooperation solutions can now be app'ed everywhere -special shoutout to Nilekani's decade of work on billion person universal identity ready to reboot india

4 unctad can now find jack ma however many big data small coding wizards he needs as UN and world's number 1 youth livelihood entrepreneur

3 Unhabitat's new female leader can publish a new atlas to launch the 2020s world of places where 11 year old girls feel safe and can thrive (see also ford foundation summer 2017 debrief)

2 Eastern Europe's 2017-2018 head of UNGA can take the 300 trillion dollar financing sdg goals gap to exiciting new partners of his extraordinary year assembling the the UN-

lichenstein now leads the world in blockchain legislation- luxembourg is hosting AIIB 2019 new development banking summit- suddenly the eastern europe with china and the much of eurasia is far more exciting for youth to free trade with than Germany's Euro- shh we didnt say that but you can if you are one of the 85% of people on the Eurasia continent that doesnt want by haggard infertile grandmother lobby at EU parliament called out by Pope Francis

1 UNESCO @Hangzhou@BRAC ( and all silk road cultural movements and chambers of commerce between Franciscan Marco Polo's Italy's and Confucian China's Ant Finance)

Here is a frist sighting of the GU7 team- which immediately raises the question- if you are in favour of youth being the sustainability generation have we left anyone out?

movement 6 valuing refugees: Guterres is Portuguese- he has spent most of his working life serving refugees and trying to reconcile borders- he is the working woman's or man's servant leader - in tune with what all Franciscans stand for without the historical baggage pope Francis finds the church trapp-ed in. During Jim Kim's first year at the world bank he signed a MOU with Pope Francis to support young professionals change every non sustainable value chain. Room for manoeuvre to do that at the wotkd bank hasnt been what JYK hoped for - he can and does make sure every greatest tech or health for youth connector he finds gets as much space inside the UN as those championing refugees or women or green or other sustainability goals can muster.

movement 7 valuing women public servats: One of the two women to join Guterres leaders team starts at the end of next week. Espinosa has promised this next 12 months of assembly meetings out of New York will be gender equal. She comes from Ecuador bringing that country's celebration of goal 11 reviews - Quito hosted the first annual review of that.

movement 3 valuing communities safe enough for 11 year old girls to feel pivotal to sustainable societies; Guterres other new team members is the feisty former female mayor of Penang- now readying to release UNHabitats 2020 atlas to places where 11 yera old girls feel safe as well as all youth can linkin sustainability goals livelihoods to their hearts contents

movement 2 The retiring head if teh General Asembly hopefully wont retire at all. His theme of 2017=2018 has been why are the most liquid 300 trillion dollars of finance not being invested in sustainability goals solutions. Being Eastern European he will be well able to mobilise the best work going on in the whole of europe on the peoples' blockchains - see the new law issued by lichtenstein last week. Its cool that a 50000 person nation whose main income is a tourist skiing slope can now be the intellectual small enterprising government to change the whole bureaucracy of the EU. I cant imagine the EU lasting if it tries to stop all Europeans enjoying Lichtensteins blockchain law. And note the battlelines for this will probably be drawn in june when Luxembourg hosts the 3rd global new development banking summit of the AIIB. The first summit was a launch pad for the globalisation of moon jae-in and korea proposal to celebrate green big bang with 2000 place leaders. Two thifrds of humanity lives in the east so why shouldn't the world unite in celebrating sustainability solutions coming from the extraordinary youth technolgists of the orient.

movement 4 Another guy on Guterres team is the Kenyan leader of UNCTAD who has wisely appointedJjack Ma as youth livelihhods entrepreneur

movement 5 ok a bit of double counting here but jack ma's record as worldwide connector of sustainabiliuty goals is amazing - he compered the first g20 after the sustainability goals were announced and mediated several citizens groups on SMEs and green finance,; he has set up a new university to mentor youth entrepreneurs scouted by unctad- and then earier this month he announced his retirement from alibaba to focus form next septmber on education and philanthropy as well as the run up to the olympics where alibaba will be sponsoring everyone who wants to celebrate community fr all movements redesigning value chains of celebrities, sports, fashions. arts culture and health - what jack calls the joyful markets that commerce and finance alone cannot serve

movement 1 and a bit more double counting - nobody can seriously mooc benchmark cases of sustainability goals let alone poorest female youth dreams without linking in sir fazle abed - -half the world live in china and south asia-bangladesh-myanmar corridor- muslim girls have done more for partners in leapfropging solutions to the sdgs than anyone- maybe bottom up UNwomens is no longer an impossible dream but ready for united youth to celebrate by doing- if and only if we totally transform livelihood education