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Welcome back to Houston.
Newsmakers have a question for you. How are you celebrating
you. How are you celebrating
Women’s History Month. You say
you didn’t know there was such
a thing where it started as
one week then was expanded to one month back in 1987.
one month back in 1987.
>> Nice to see. The United
States decided to expand the
opportunity to talk about
women’s contributions. To all
that we do. But the fact is
that International Women’s Day has been celebrated for more
has been celebrated for more
than 110 years. And has been
since 1917, will be celebrated
on March 8th, which this year
happens to fall on Tuesday.
The big plans for Houston celebration and we’ll talk
celebration and we’ll talk
about that in a moment. But I
thought we get into the right
frame of mind with this excerpt from spoken word poet
excerpt from spoken word poet
Mesa, not let’s break.
>> By we can break the buys by knocking it down. Brick by
knocking it down. Brick by
brick. We can start by
diversifying and friends that
the peak. We can become conscious of our conscious of
conscious of our conscious of
the way that we treat people
because of age education
agenda. It is through being
conscious. >> That it the hot can become
>> That it the hot can become
10. We can remember that being
biased doesn’t make you a bad person. You can knock down a
person. You can knock down a
wall and turn it into It is
through having the courage to
confront you’ll prejudice that
you can show the world that you The future is calling on
you The future is calling on
you to Will you be there? Let’s break. The
Let’s break. The
>> I like her brake bias is
the theme of this year’s
International Women’s Day. And
as you can imagine, there are
many events surrounding this
year’s celebration, including
here in Houston here this
morning to talk about what’s being planned and how you can
being planned and how you can
get involved or the honorable
doctor t to banks. Chair of
the United Nations
Association, the United States
of America, and then the new Cohen president of who’s who
Cohen president of who’s who
in the adapt, the Astra in the
mayor’s Office of
International Affairs. Good
Morning to both of you. Thank
you for being here. Thank you
for inviting us for people who may not talk about what is the
may not talk about what is the
United Nations Association of
the USA and what his purpose
is to pay. The United Nations
Association was founded by Eleanor Roosevelt shortly
Eleanor Roosevelt shortly
after United Nations was
founded and she went around
the country trying to get
support for the United
Nations.
>> Because when it was
established and certainly today we see why it is even
today we see why it is even
more need. She felt it took
civic action to support the
mission and the vision and the
United Nations. And that
movements had to come from the
masses from the ground up. And so we have over 200 some
so we have over 200 some
chapters throughout the U.S..
And then we also been member
of the World Federation of U N A’s. That includes 94 nations
A’s. That includes 94 nations
and we get together talk about
issues and move on issues that
need to be addressed, I’m sure
a lot of that has to do with a quality issues around the
quality issues around the
world does Yes. As we talk
about human rights issues, we
talk about climate action. We
now working on the sustainable
development goals. We call them the global goals or the
them the global goals or the
SDG E’s that all nations have
bought into and even the U.S.
has goals and key point and
achievements that we’re looking to be met. But have I
looking to be met. But have I
ever with the COVID-19, some
of that has been set back. So
we are now working to get back
on track with that and
certainly in the middle of the
Ukraine issue, this is more important for the UN to get
important for the UN to get
involved and for the World
Federation to get involved was
a lot going on. Want to it
better. Get a sense of what
your organization miss and you
can one of the events next
week is the state of black
women. And he asked for which
gives you the chance to talk
about your organization really
about what it’s all about and
the focus on next week’s
program. Give us a sense of
what that is. Yes. So who’s
The African diaspora? It
allows us to build a >> I asked friends the U.S.
>> I asked friends the U.S.
and how we can work together
to connect to the continent.
And we’ve had the privilege to connect with the African Union
connect with the African Union
mission to the U.S.. To host
virtual virtual monthly
meetings to discuss various
issues. And, you know, obviously we couldn’t go
obviously we couldn’t go
without discussing
international women’s month
for this month and focus on
the status of black women in
the diaspora in collaboration with the United Nations
with the United Nations
Association. Okay. And so you
there’s an event coming up,
but don’t coming up on that
day, correct. So what kind of
stuff are you going to have on
that Tuesday? on that Tuesday will be supporting the United
will be supporting the United
Nations Association. But then
Thursday, because the
participation with the
ambassador will be basically a virtual discussion, right?
virtual discussion, right?
Right on the 8th itself. The
UN Secretary general will be
holding a webinar with key
people throughout the world
about international Women’s
Day. And so we decided to have ours on the 10th and that will
ours on the 10th and that will
focus on not Houston, but we
are inviting the world to come
into this webinar. Yes, and it
is kind of neat because because of technology, yes,
because of technology, yes,
the world can come in as well.
I saw that entitlement in
title of it is gender equality
today for a sustainable tomorrow.
>> think that is the UN’s But
this year’s International
Women’s Day, how important is
that? I mean, right now we
talk about gender equality. There still is a long way to
There still is a long way to
go. Is not? Certainly
certainly one of the things
women and I were talking about
putting this together is like,
look, we need to it. Yes, we
know that there are problems with their also been
with their also been
achievements. So we want to
look at what had been those
achievements globally of women
of color, especially African
American African women African descent. But then look at the
descent. But then look at the
challenges. And so while we do
have to say here in America,
we have women doing great in
terms of businesses such as
this business. You pretty have
it all. Cathy Hughes and all these women in business doing
these women in business doing
very, very well. We’re looking
at the poverty level globally
African women wherever they
are in the diaspora. We’re looking at equal rights. We’re
looking at equal rights. We’re
looking at a human rights
issues and I keep going back
to the Ukraine. We’re not
dealing with the Ukraine issue
with Africans being able to get out of Ukraine black women
get out of Ukraine black women
that are in that situation and
people don’t really think
about that very much because
we don’t see those faces very
much. We know they’re there. one other sign of recent
one other sign of recent
gender equality victory was on
the soccer field, which is
kind of interesting with the
women’s soccer USA women.
>> They were able to now
achieved parity with men and men soccer. You would think
men soccer. You would think
what? Why? How how long did
that take? Right? But we still
have to do with the WNBA. what
we’re going to do you know, so in athletics, in all
in athletics, in all
employment. And I think that
what happens and what’s great
about the women’s soccer is
that it has such visibility.
>> That it then says, OK,
we’re able to do this on this
level. So now we’re going to look at it on the all these
look at it on the all these
other levels that to talk
about what your your
organization does and what you
specifically make as a priority.
>> I think mainly to to build
the because I feel that if
were able to mobilize each
other and connect with each of the week in somehow empower
the week in somehow empower
each other. Going forward.
Just with this upcoming
virtual meeting. That is the
goal that as she said, when we
do talk about that achievement. But to highlight
achievement. But to highlight
those challenges and how we
with our different
organizations can come
together and execute some of the solutions that we
the solutions that we
discussed during that virtual
panel. How can people get
involved if they want to chime
in and be a part of this event next week they can visit who
next week they can visit who
is who African dot com forward
slash bms meeting theories.
And I’m going to put that on
our Web site, too. So you go
to that and find out just how you can do that. Thank you
you can do that. Thank you
both for being here. Love this
idea that something needs to
be done all year the state
could sure actually have to
give our credit out time
collaborators. Also the Caribbean Chamber of Commerce.
Caribbean Chamber of Commerce.
>> And also the Texas Spring
Cypress chapter of the links
rate. got to give those links