UN Secretary General Candidate Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett

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Aug 20, 202625:12News & Politics

Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett is a Guyanese diplomat and candidate for Secretary-General of the United Nations. If selected, she would become both the first woman and the first person of Indigenous descent to lead the world...

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