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Profiling ‘Mama Beijing’; The Tanzanian Woman Who Chaired The Historic Beijing Conference On Women In 1995 by November 16, 2020, 12:49 pm 640 Get Stories like this Thehistoricfourth UN World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China, in 1995 was chaired by Ms. Gertrude Mongella of Tanzania who to this day is called “Mama Beijing†in her home country for being instrumental during deliberations at the conference. Mongella was born in September 1945, a month before the United Nations was incorporated that same year. She was born in Ukerewe, an island in Lake Victoria, and then went on to school...
