Deputy United Nation’s Chief asserts to Fight Back at Global Citizen Festival.

Sept 2025 : The Global Citizen Festival, 2025 was organised at the Green Lawn in Central Park of New York City, wherein a crowd of 60,000 people were reported to have been actively participated.

The music event, which took place in Central Park on the last weekend of high-level week of the General Assembly, is the flagship event from Global Citizen, the world’s largest movement to end extreme poverty. This year’s lineup included international stars such as Shakira, Cardi B and Rosé.

Most importantly, the event has mobilised $280 million in commitments to protect 25 million hectares of the Amazon rainforest; over $30 million raised for access to education and sports for children in over 200 communities worldwide through the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund; and clean energy access provided to 4.6 million homes across Africa.

Deputy UN Secretary-General Amina Mohammed thanked the crowd at New York’s Global Citizen Festival on Saturday for using their voice for justice and “refusing to give up on a better world”.

Ms. Mohammed took to the stage to thank the festival-goers and reminded them that there are just five years left to make the Sustainable Development Goals, which is a blueprint for a fairer future for people and the planet in reality. “We still have a ways to go. We’re moving, but it’s just not fast enough and the clock is ticking really loud”.

As Special Advisor to former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Ms. Mohammed was instrumental in manoeuvering through the Goals and securing consensus from the UN Member States in 2015. Speaking on Friday, she reiterated that $4.3 trillion is needed every year to finance the Goals and leave no one behind.

“What really matters is to give peace a chance for the women in Sudan, for the children in Gaza, for the people in Ukraine. We need peace everywhere”, she declared, calling for measures to ensure that artificial intelligence does not create new divides, for women to be included at every table where decisions are taken, for quality education and for the planet, “from the Amazon to the Congo and to every corner of the world”.

The Deputy UN Chief exhorted those in attendance to see solutions where others see dead ends and to use their voice to “cut through the noise, demanding for everyone to do better and not accepting the globalisation of indifference”.

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