United Nations Radio

The multiple global crises facing the world - food, financial, energy and global warming, are threatening achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

But she told the General Assembly's Social Committee that an immense untapped resource -women - have been excluded from the strategies of international development and security.

According to Ms. Mayanja, the untapped resources of women are immense.

"To engage those resources requires a fundamental shift in our thinking. We must create a new paradigm in our policies, a model of inclusive development and security. In short, it must become unthinkable not to have women integrally involved in every stage of the development and peace processes."

Ms. Mayanja calls for a faster, more flexible and effective coordination and response mechanisms to deal with the confluence of crises.

This is Donn Bobb for United Nations Radio.

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