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born 1961 Nigeria
Amina Jane Mohammed (born 27 June 1961) is a Nigerian diplomat and politician who is serving as the fifth Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, she was Nigerian Minister of Environment from 2015 to 2016 and was a key player in the Post-2015 Development Agenda process.
Also known as: Aminah Mohammed
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"Leaving no one behind means reaching the furthest behind first."
"Sustainable development is not an option; it is an imperative."
"We cannot afford to exclude half of humanity from the solutions that will shape our future."
"Young people are not just the leaders of tomorrow. They are the partners of today."
It's very important that we don't withhold aid from people that it matters most to.
Innovative instruments including blended finance can all play an important role, but we need to massively scale-up that delivery.
We must design a future that is shaped by women and girls that realizes their right and aspirations to a world where equality is reality.
As human beings, what we look to is what they stood for.
We learn to have pride and independence of one’s being, how that contributes from the inside out.
Everybody’s got a closet, and some worse than others. But if that person takes a good message that does no harm, that brings people together, that forwards Africa, we need to find that community.
For the first time we’re not putting a band-aid on the problem, we’re looking at the root causes.
We are better investing now because we just won’t be able to afford it later.
And I think that we have to think and listen to what the leader is saying and doing, rather than judge what’s in the closet.
Until everyone gets the vaccine, we will all be at risk, and we will not be able to take the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to where they ought to be by 2030.
Yes. In the context of many of our countries that are experiencing different types of conflict and humanitarian challenges, it’s difficult to address some of these goals.
For many, the health pandemic has been a tragedy, particularly in developed countries, but for developing countries it has a socio-economic impact that will take so much longer to recover from.
You’re not just looking at capacities and skills to connect to the outside world without understanding anything about who you are, and the part that you play in your own ecosystem.
Our ambition is for each child, as a global citizen, and not just an African citizen, but to bring that whole technology and learning into an environment.
And there has to be a huge amount of courage that what you’re doing is shaping the future. I mean, concretely, shaping that future for your people with what you know is the right thing.
And that we move on from things that we did not know were so harmful because they were so cultural, or so male-vested. And we need to move on. But there are some good things there.
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