New UN Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women appointed.

Rachel Mayanja, currently the Director of the Human Resources Management Division at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) was recently named as the new UN Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women. She succeeds Angela King who retired earlier this year. Ms Mayanja joined the UN shortly after the 1975 UN World Conference on Women. She holds law degrees from Makerere University in Uganda, and Harvard Law School in the United States.

Source: UN News Service 12 August 2004

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