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Middle East CentreThe Devaki Jain Lecture - Empowered voices: Jordanian women shaping their future (Transcript)The Middle East Centre was honoured to host the 2025 Devaki Jain Lecture. This year’s lecture was delivered by Rana Husseini, Jordanian activist, journalist and author. The Middle East Centre was honoured to host the 2025 Devaki Jain Lecture. This year’s lecture was delivered by Rana Husseini, Jordanian activist, journalist and author.
The Devaki Jain lecture series, established in 2015 by Devaki Jain, welcomes esteemed women speakers from the South. Past speakers have included Dr Graça Machel, Professor Eudine Barriteau, and Dr Noeleen Heyzer.
Rana Husseini is an internationally recognized human rights activist, gender trainer and a senior journalist with more...2025-05-3000 minMiddle East CentreThe Devaki Jain Lecture - Empowered voices: Jordanian women shaping their futureThe Middle East Centre was honoured to host the 2025 Devaki Jain Lecture. This year’s lecture was delivered by Rana Husseini, Jordanian activist, journalist and author. The Middle East Centre was honoured to host the 2025 Devaki Jain Lecture. This year’s lecture was delivered by Rana Husseini, Jordanian activist, journalist and author.
The Devaki Jain lecture series, established in 2015 by Devaki Jain, welcomes esteemed women speakers from the South. Past speakers have included Dr Graça Machel, Professor Eudine Barriteau, and Dr Noeleen Heyzer.
Rana Husseini is an internationally recognized human rights activist, gender trainer and a senior journalist with more...2025-05-301h 05
The Front Row Podcast#27- Dr. Noeleen Heyzer (Former UN Under-Secretary General) - Championing Women's Rights In The UNIn today's episode, I speak with Dr. Noeleen Heyzer, a distinguished diplomat and international civil servant who served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. Dr. Heyzer also led the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), transforming it into a powerful advocate for women's rights and empowerment globally. This episode was produced in conjunction with the upcoming International Women's Day, with the hope of getting more of us to reflect on the progress we have made and what is needed for the road ahead. Dr. Heyzer speaks candidly about her...2025-03-0658 min
Behind the NumbersNoeleen HeyzerThis episode is with Noeleen Heyzer, the now Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Myanmar. Noeleen has served in several leadership positions in the UN, including as the first woman Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, as the Executive Director of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), as well as the Secretary-General's Special Adviser for Timor-Leste. In this episode, the final in the series, Noeleen reflects on why a gendered lens to peacemaking is crucial and what meaningful participation means to her.
The episode was recorded in 2020. A...2023-03-1421 min
Policy and RightsMichelle Bachelet, Security Council, Myanmar & other topicsMICHELLE BACHELET In a statement released today, the Secretary-General said that he was deeply grateful to Michelle Bachelet for her relentless service to the United Nations as High Commissioner for Human Rights. From her earliest days in Chile with enormous personal sacrifice, she has been on the frontlines of the human rights struggle all her life. In all she has done, Michelle Bachelet lives and breathes human rights. She has moved the needle in an extremely challenging political context – and she has made a profound difference for people around the globe. The Secretary-General said that she continues to have his full...2022-06-1450 min
International HorizonsGender Equality as an Essential Element in Securing Peace and Prosperity with Noeleen HeyzerEllen Chesler talks with former director of UNIFEM Noeleen Heyzer about what was to be a woman in leadership, the constraints of advancing an agenda for women, how bureaucracies can be converted into communities of mutual aid, the legacy of Beijing’s 1995 Conference on Women and how UN’s principles of peace and human rights are not enough in preventing violence, corruption and exclusion.2022-02-2848 min
Institute of Policy Studies10th IPS-Nathan Lecture Series: Lecture III by Noeleen Heyzer10th IPS-Nathan Lecture Series: Lecture III by Noeleen Heyzer by Institute of Policy Studies2021-12-111h 36Institute of Policy Studies10th IPS-Nathan Lecture Series: Lecture II by Noeleen Heyzer10th IPS-Nathan Lecture Series: Lecture II by Noeleen Heyzer by Institute of Policy Studies2021-12-011h 38Institute of Policy Studies10th IPS-Nathan Lecture Series: Lecture I by Noeleen Heyzer10th IPS-Nathan Lecture Series: Lecture I by Noeleen Heyzer by Institute of Policy Studies2021-11-171h 51
Asian InsiderAssessing the call for an Asean travel corridor in Covid era: Regional Roundup Ep 21Regional Round-up Ep 21: Assessing the call for an Asean travel corridor in Covid era 10:44 mins Synopsis: Every week, The Straits Times analyses South-east Asia's top news developments. The Straits Times' regional correspondent Leslie Lopez chats with Money FM's Ryan Huang and Bharati Jagdish about the following points: Climate change - one of the main issues of the Asean summit (1:07) US President Joe Biden's US$100m initiative to strengthen ties with Asean (2:10) The impact of Myanmar's absence from the Asean summit (3:26) United Nations appoints Singaporean Noeleen Heyzer as new special envoy to Myanmar (6:25) In...2021-10-2710 minThe Straits Times PodcastsAssessing the call for an Asean travel corridor in Covid era: Regional Roundup Ep 21Regional Round-up Ep 21: Assessing the call for an Asean travel corridor in Covid era 10:44 mins Synopsis: Every week, The Straits Times analyses South-east Asia's top news developments. The Straits Times' regional correspondent Leslie Lopez chats with Money FM's Ryan Huang and Bharati Jagdish about the following points: Climate change - one of the main issues of the Asean summit (1:07) US President Joe Biden's US$100m initiative to strengthen ties with Asean (2:10) The impact of Myanmar's absence from the Asean summit (3:26) United Nations appoints Singaporean Noeleen Heyzer as new special envoy to Myanmar (6:25) In...2021-10-2710 min
Carnegie Council Video PodcastThe United Nations at 75: Looking Back to Look Forward, Episode 3, with Noeleen HeyzerIn the third episode of "The United Nations at 75: Looking Back to Look Forward," host Margaret P. Karns and Noeleen Heyzer, former executive director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, discuss the role of women in the UN over the years. Heyzer speaks about the Beijing Women's Conference; Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security; and the prospects for increasing gender equality in the UN system in the decades to come.2020-12-0414 min
Carnegie Council PodcastsThe United Nations at 75: Looking Back to Look Forward, Episode 3, with Noeleen HeyzerIn the third episode of "The United Nations at 75: Looking Back to Look Forward," host Margaret P. Karns and Noeleen Heyzer, former executive director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, discuss the role of women in the UN over the years. Heyzer speaks about the Beijing Women's Conference; Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security; and the prospects for increasing gender equality in the UN system in the decades to come.2020-11-1237 min
PassBlue UN PodcastsEp. 12: Vietnam: Bridge Builder at the UN?As the United Nations Security Council faces rising tensions between the United States and Iran in the Middle East, Vietnam assumes the Council presidency this month as well as the chairmanship of the Association of SouthEast Asian Nations (ASEAN)for 2020. On this week's show, we chat with two experts about how Vietnam may navigate the global crisis alongside its own priorities: Noeleen Heyzer, a distinguished fellow at the University of Singapore and former diplomat and high-level UN official, and Dr. Prashanth Parameswaran, a senior editor at The Diplomat and a fellow at the Carter Center. CORRECTION: The UN ambassador from...2020-01-0819 min
PassBlue UN PodcastsEp. 12: Vietnam: Bridge Builder at the UN?As the United Nations Security Council faces rising tensions between the United States and Iran in the Middle East, Vietnam assumes the Council presidency this month as well as the chairmanship of the Association of SouthEast Asian Nations (ASEAN)for 2020. On this week's show, we chat with two experts about how Vietnam may navigate the global crisis alongside its own priorities: Noeleen Heyzer, a distinguished fellow at the University of Singapore and former diplomat and high-level UN official, and Dr. Prashanth Parameswaran, a senior editor at The Diplomat and a fellow at the Carter Center.
CORRECTION: The UN ambassador from...2020-01-0819 min
St Anne's CollegeAt the Frontlines of Change: Feminist Leadership Transforming Lives - Devaki Jain LectureNoeleen Heyzer gives the 2016 Devaki Jain Lecture. Noeleen Heyzer is former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. Born in Singapore, she was the first woman from the South to head the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the first woman to head the Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific since its founding in 1947. Noeleen Heyzer is an active member of the women’s
movement in her region and carried that passion into the UN.2017-03-1032 min
Two Old Bitches: Stories from Women who Reimagine, Reinvent and RebelS01 Episode 05: Noeleen Heyzer – Through the Eyes of ExperienceIn these challenging times, we need wise women more than ever! For the last 40 years, Noeleen Heyzer, 68, has been a courageous and influential thinker and advocate for women’s rights, workers’ rights, climate justice and so many other issues. Until 2015, she was the United Nations Under-Secretary General for the entire Asia-Pacific region and, from 1994 to 2007, she was the Executive Director for the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). Noeleen’s leadership, writing and actions have inspired many thousands of men and women – including her two phenomenal and talented daughters, Pauline and Lilianne -- to stand up, speak up and make a d...2017-01-1728 min