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Cissy Houston Emily "Cissy" Houston (née Drinkard; born September 30, 1933) is an American soul and gospel singer. After a successful career singing backup for such artists as Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin, Houston embarked on a solo career, winning two Grammy Awards for her work. Houston is the mother of singer Whitney Houston, grandmother of Whitney's daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, aunt of singers Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick, and a cousin of opera singer Leontyne Price.
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Dionne Warwick Dionne Warwick ( ) (born Marie Dionne Warrick; December 12, 1940) is an American singer, actress and television show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health.
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Maya Tiwari Maya Tiwari (born April 16, 1952 in Liverpool Village, Guyana) is a humanitarian, world peace leader and author. Also called "Mother Maya," she is an international teacher of Ayurveda, a health activist and the founder of the Wise Earth School of Ayurveda and Mother Om Mission.
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Melissa F. Wells Melissa Foelsch Wells (born November 18, 1932, in Tallinn, Estonia) is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau (1976–77), Mozambique (1987–90), Congo-Kinshasa (1991–93), and Estonia (1998–2001). She is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy.
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Sarah E. Mendelson Sarah E. Mendelson is an American diplomat and serves as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Mendelson was confirmed by the Senate on October 8, 2015 and sworn into her post on October 15, 2015.
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Christine A. Elder Christine A. Elder is an American diplomat and serves as the United States Ambassador to Liberia.
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Cissy King Claire Yvonne “Cissy” King (born January 3, 1946) is an American-born singer and dancer best known as a featured performer on "The Lawrence Welk Show" television program.
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Mbaranga Gasarabwe Mbaranga Gasarabwe (born 1959), a native of Rwanda, currently serves as the first Assistant Secretary-General for Safety and Security at the United Nations. She was appointed to this position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 18 April 2011.
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Nancy Stetson Nancy Stetson is the United States Special Representative for Global Food Security, responsible for leading all aspects of U.S. diplomacy related to food security and nutrition, appointed by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on June 23, 2014. She is also the Deputy Coordinator for Diplomacy for Feed the Future - the US government's global hunger and food security initiative. In October 2016, Ambassador Stetson was the deputy head of delegation for the U.S. party to Habitat III - the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development.
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Dee Dee Bridgewater Dee Dee Bridgewater (born May 27, 1950) is an American jazz singer. She is a three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award-winning stage actress. For 23 years, she was the host of National Public Radio's syndicated radio show "JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater". She is a United Nations Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization.
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Lolowah bint Faisal Al Saud Lolowah bint Faisal (Arabic: لولوة الفيصل آل سعود‎ ‎ ; also spelled Loulwa) (born 1948) is a daughter of King Faisal from his fourth wife, Iffat Al Thunayan, and is considered one of the most publicly visible female members of the Saudi Royal Family. She is the sister of Foreign Minister Prince Saud and former Saudi Ambassador to the United States Prince Turki. She is a prominent activist for women's education and other social issues in Saudi Arabia.
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First Ladies Summit The First Ladies Summit was officially established in 2010, with Malaysia playing the inaugural host for this biennial event. It aims to gather First Ladies around the world to support a global initiative to ensure a safe and sustainable future for the next generation. The theme of the summit is "A Child Today, A Leader Tomorrow". Despite relatively lukewarm response, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon praised the inaugural First Ladies Summit for its efforts in securing the welfare of the children
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Dee Dee Warwick Delia Juanita Warrick (September 25, 1945 – October 18, 2008), known as Dee Dee Warwick, was an American soul singer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, she was the sister of Dionne Warwick, niece of Cissy Houston and the cousin of Whitney Houston.
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Karen Spencer, Countess Spencer Karen Spencer, Countess Spencer ("née" Villeneuve; born 1972) is a Canadian social entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Whole Child International, a U.S.-based non-governmental organization (NGO) that works to improve the quality of care for vulnerable children in childcare institutions and orphanages worldwide.
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Miss Jamaica Global Miss Jamaica Global is a Jamaican beauty pageant for young women in the island, that share the same view as its Motto Uniting the World through beauty and tourism.
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Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva (born July 3, 1978) is an Uzbek diplomat and philanthropist. She is the younger daughter of former Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov and his wife, Tatyana Akbarovna Karimova. Her older sister is Uzbek diplomat and business mogul Gulnara Karimova.
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Whitney Houston Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, "Guinness World Records" cited her as the most awarded female act of all-time. Houston is one of the best-selling music artists of all-time, with 200 million records sold worldwide. She released seven studio albums and two soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum, or gold certification. Houston's crossover appeal on the popular music charts, as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for "How Will I Know", influenced several African American women artists who follow in her footsteps.
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Ziauddin Yousafzai Ziauddin Yousafzai (born 1969 Shangla, Pakistan) is a Pakistani diplomat best known as the father of Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, a young woman who protested against the Taliban for the education rights of girls, especially for Pakistani girls. He is currently the United Nations Special Advisor on Global Education and also the educational attaché of Pakistan in its consulate in Birmingham, UK.
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UNESCO Artist for Peace UNESCO Artists for Peace are international celebrity advocates for the United Nations agency UNESCO. This category of advocate is intended to heighten public awareness in addition to the categories UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, UNESCO Special Envoy and UNESCO Champion for Sport. The programme started in 1995.
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Sarah York Sarah York is an American who became the pen pal of Manuel Noriega, then the de facto ruler of Panama, at age 10. York began correspondence with Noriega after her father suggested on a whim that she should write to him because she liked the general's hat. This correspondence developed to the point where Noriega invited her family to visit him in Panama. Her family agreed to the visit, seeing it as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
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Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa (born October 18, 1952) (Arabic: هيا راشد آل خليفة‎ ‎ ) is a pioneering female lawyer and diplomat from Bahrain. As ambassador to France 1999-2004 she became Bahrain's first ever female ambassador. She is one of the first women to practice law in Bahrain, and the third ever woman to preside at the UN General Assembly.
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Suzan Johnson Cook Suzan Denise Johnson Cook (born January 28, 1957) is a presidential advisor, pastor, theologian, author, activist, and academic who served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom from April 2011 to October 2013. She has had a wide-ranging career in a number of fields, serving as a policy advisor to President Bill Clinton and later to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros, a dean and professor of communications at Harvard University, a professor of theology at New York Theological Seminary, a pastor at a number of churches, a television producer, a sought-after speaker and the author of nearly a dozen books, before being named Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom by President Barack Obama. She was also the first female senior pastor in the 200-year history of the American Baptist Churches USA and a close friend of Coretta Scott King.