Sep 26, 2026
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley delivers a powerful address at the United Nations, challenging the mindset and power structures that she argues continue to shape global inequality.
Mottley links the legacy of slavery to present-day inequalities within international institutions and the global financial system, calling for equal treatment, respect and a transformation of the international order. She also invokes former Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie’s historic 1963 UN address on racial equality, warning that without equality, there can be no lasting trust or transformation.
“There will be no trust and no transformation.
