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From the General Assembly to Harlem: Mandela’s call to action endures
Sixty-seven minutes. That is how long volunteers spent serving lunch to people experiencing food insecurity at Refettorio Harlem in New York City last week – one for every year Nelson Mandela gave to public service.
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Diplomats stood alongside city officials and neighbourhood volunteers, dishing out plates rather than platitudes, in a small but pointed answer to a question the UN spent Monday asking in more formal terms: what does Mandela's legacy actually demand of us now?
That question sat at the centre of the General Assembly's commemoration of Nelson Mandela International Day, where the focus fell squarely on poverty and inequality – and on whether the world is living up to the example Mandela set.
Secretary-General António Guterres, speaking through his Chef de Cabinet, Courtenay Rattray, did not mince words.
Mandela understood that the world's deepest problems come from human decisions – and can therefore be undone by different ones, Mr.
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