HRH Princess Haya’s Passionate Speech at the UN

Diana Bell-Heather   |   20-06-2018

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HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein spoke at the Executive Board Meeting for the World Food Programme at their headquarters in Rome.

 

She took to social media to share some of her speech in which she spoke of peace and the need to fight for it:

 

“As your UN Messenger of Peace, I feel unequivocally that today my obligation is to demand that we recognise that peace needs to be fought for… and that now is the time to fight…and that perhaps the best way to fight is to give people something to live for.”

 

Haya Bint Al Hussein un meeting rome

 

Princess Haya, wife of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has been a Messenger of Peace since 2007 served as a goodwill ambassador for the World Food Programme. Eight years later, she received the WFP Hunger Hero Award, and is also the chairperson of the International Humanitarian City in Dubai.

 

Her determination tackle poverty and hunger around the world is something that has inspired many projects and people to make a change for the better.

 

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