Katrín Jakobsdóttir, the Prime Minister of Iceland is one of the faces of a UN Decade of Women campaign to achieve gender equality for all women and girls by the year 2030.
The other faces of the campaign include two UNDP UNDP Equator Prize Winners, Aoua Cherif Doumbia the of the Mali Elephant Project and Kamal Shivling Kumbhar Swayan Shikshan India. The three now grace giant billboards over Times Square in New York, where the UN campaign is currently meeting.
Katrín's photo was taken as a part of photography project by Ralph Reutimann and Amber Nyström called Women of Iceland. The book, which will be released in the summer of 2018 includes photos and interviews with Icelandic women pioneers, including Katrín Jakobsdóttir, the second female Prime Minister of Iceland and the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, the first democratically elected female head of state.
Katrín Jakobsdóttir, the Prime Minister of Iceland is one of the faces of a UN Decade of Women campaign to achieve gender equality for all women and girls by the year 2030.
The other faces of the campaign include two UNDP UNDP Equator Prize Winners, Aoua Cherif Doumbia the of the Mali Elephant Project and Kamal Shivling Kumbhar Swayan Shikshan India. The three now grace giant billboards over Times Square in New York, where the UN campaign is currently meeting.
Katrín's photo was taken as a part of photography project by Ralph Reutimann and Amber Nyström called Women of Iceland. The book, which will be released in the summer of 2018 includes photos and interviews with Icelandic women pioneers, including Katrín Jakobsdóttir, the second female Prime Minister of Iceland and the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, the first democratically elected female head of state.
