{"id":830,"date":"2016-02-15T12:06:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T12:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/?p=830"},"modified":"2016-02-17T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T15:37:07","slug":"selecting-a-new-un-secretary-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"Blog: Selecting a UN Secretary-General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The merit &#8211; gender conundrum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In December 2016 Ban Ki-moon, current UN Secretary-General, will leave office as his term expires. Since early 2015 campaign groups have been calling for the next UNSG to be a woman (@She4SG), to be elected with greater transparency and involvement by the General Assembly (@1for7billion) or to be limited to one seven-year term (@TheElders).<\/p>\n<p>Dr Kirsten Haack published a blog on <em>Women in Global Governance<\/em> on the question of whether &#8220;the best person for the job&#8221; can be a woman, or whether merit is inevitably gendered. Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womeninglobalgovernance.net\/blog\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The merit &#8211; gender conundrum In December 2016 Ban Ki-moon, current UN Secretary-General, will leave office as his term expires. Since early 2015 campaign groups have been calling for the next UNSG to be a woman (@She4SG), to be elected&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/?p=830\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}