Women Leaders Gather for Peace: Celebrities Include Christie Brinkley, Marian Hobbs and Alexa McDonough

Women Leaders Gather for Peace: Celebrities Include Christie Brinkley, Marian Hobbs and Alexa McDonough

Oct 12 2007

At the United Nations, women leaders from around the world gathered for peace. The Global Security Institute and the Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament hosted a special panel event at the United Nations entitled "Amplifying the Moral and Practical Missions of the United Nations: Parliamentarians, diplomats and concerned citizens working to abolish nuclear weapons."  The all-women panel featured speeches by US supermodel Christie Brinkley, senior parliamentarians Marian Hobbs and Alexa McDonough - from New Zealand and Canada, respectively - and Cora Weiss, a leader in the peace movement the past five decades.  Rhianna Tyson, Senior Officer from the Global Security Institute, chaired the event. Thumbnail image L to R: Rhianna Tyson, Christie Brinkley and Cora Weiss.

Held at the United Nations during the deliberations of the General Assembly committee which deals with matters relating to disarmament, the all-women panel was also intended as a way to commemorate the upcoming anniversary of the adoption of Security Council Resolution 1325, which called for greater participation by women at all levels of conflict prevention and peacemaking.  Such an All-Women Leadership Panel on Nuclear Weapons reflects the leadership of women in the movement to abolish nukes, which, as Chairwoman Rhianna Tyson noted, has historically been led by women since the dawn of the atomic age.

Re-Broadcast with permission from Extra TV and the Global Security Institute.

More information can be found at: http://www.gsinstitute.org/gsi/archives/000303.html

Produced by: Extra TV, 10/12/2007
Language: English
Run Time: 14 min. 24 sec.
Story Level 2 = Children may need to ask their parents about the meaning of the Story

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