The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has announced their list of the women who contributed the most to 2011 and Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff features as their most important woman for September 2011. The BBC said:
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff became the first woman to open a debate at the UN General Assembly. To loud applause, she said she was convinced that the 21st Century would be the “century of women”.
She is the first woman to be elected Brazil’s president, having achieved a reputation as an economic reformer. The main focus of her UN speech was on the need for concerted action to tackle the economic crisis and for reform of international institutions to reflect the shifting balance of global power.
Click here for more information on President Dilma’s UN address last September.
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