Lucille M. Mair
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Dr. Lucille Mathurin Mair (c. 1925 – January 28, 2009) was a Jamaica
n ambassador, author, diplomat and gender specialist.
Mair served as Assistant Secretary-General in the office of the United Nations Secretary in 1979, from which she performed the role of Secretary-General for the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women held in 1980 in Copenhagen
. From 1981- 1982, she served as special advisor to the United Nations Children's Fund
(UNICEF) on Women's Development at the level of assistant secretary general. She then went on to served as Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Palestine from 1982 to 1987. Mair died on January 28, 2009 at her home in Kingston
.
The International Institute of Social Studies
(ISS) awarded its honorary doctorate to Lucille Mair in 1988.
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
n ambassador, author, diplomat and gender specialist.
Mair served as Assistant Secretary-General in the office of the United Nations Secretary in 1979, from which she performed the role of Secretary-General for the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women held in 1980 in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
. From 1981- 1982, she served as special advisor to the United Nations Children's Fund
United Nations Children's Fund
United Nations Children's Fund was created by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II...
(UNICEF) on Women's Development at the level of assistant secretary general. She then went on to served as Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Palestine from 1982 to 1987. Mair died on January 28, 2009 at her home in Kingston
Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...
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The International Institute of Social Studies
Institute of Social Studies
The International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague is a unique, independent and international graduate school in the social sciences...
(ISS) awarded its honorary doctorate to Lucille Mair in 1988.