Gambia - First Lady Jammeh takes part in high-level sessions in US

The event was a celebration of diversity and global economics through fashion. Its objective was “to harness the power of the fashion and beauty industries and implement creative strategies for sustainable economic growth, wellness and independence of communities worldwide and the preservation of culture through the expression of fashion.

Held at the Pierre Hotel on the Upper East Side, the third edition of this Luncheon welcomed the wife of United Nations secretary general, Yoo Ban Soon-taek; media maven Tina Brown; Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel of Saudi Arabia; and fashion designer Donna Karan, among others.

The minister of Basic and Secondary Education, Fatou Lamin Faye, delivered Madam Jammeh’s statement during the said event, that also addressed various creative strategies in resolving and overcoming peace challenges on various forms of women’s health and wellbeing. 

At the Summit

It would be recalled that world leaders at this year’s UN summit looked at three main thematic areas. They included ways at examining how to work towards ensuring stable and peaceful societies in the post-2015 development framework, by creating an enabling environment for development and progress; diminishing external stressors that contribute to conflicts; ensuring accessible institutions of justice, reducing violence, and enhancing the capacity and accountability of good governance mechanisms and practices that benefit peace and sustainable development.

Other issues debated at the summit included how issues of water, sanitation and sustainable energy would be well fitted in the Post 2015 Development Agenda. 

“With some 1.4 billion people without reliable electricity; 900 million lacking access to clean water and 2.6 billion without adequate sanitation, action is urgently needed to address these persistent challenges. With so many initiatives in these three fields, let us try and draw upon and share the existing knowledge, while scaling up initiatives that have already worked in the areas of integrated water management, sustainable energy and sanitation services for the proposed Post-2015 Development Agenda,” the president of the Assembly, John William Ashe, told leaders and other high-ranking diplomats at the opening session.