Arora Akanksha, an Indian-origin employee at the United Nations (UN) has announced her candidacy to be the Secretary-General even as incumbent Antonio Guterres is seeking a second five-year term as chief of the UN. His first term ends on December 31 this year and the term of the next Secretary-General will begin on January 1, 2022.
#AroraForSG campaign
The 34-year-old audit coordinator for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said she will run for the post of the world’s top diplomat and launched her campaign #AroraForSG this month.
“People in my position aren’t supposed to stand up to the ones in charge. We are supposed to wait our turn, hop on the hamster wheel, go to work, keep our heads down and accept that the world is the way it is,” Akanksha said in a two-and-a-half-minute campaign video that she posted online.
“For 75 years, the UN has not fulfilled its promise to the world – refugees haven’t been protected, humanitarian aid has been minimal,…
