Flashback: First female General Assembly president.



In 1953, the United Nations Member States elected India’s political dynamo Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit as the eighth President of the General Assembly, the first woman ever elected to the role. Ahead of International Women’s Day, marked on March 8th, we look back at the huge impact this pioneer for gender equality and non-discrimination had on the international stage.
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