Uber partnership with UN women’s group hits dead end
It looks like a United Nations group devoted to women’s rights won’t be partnering with controversial car-hailing service Uber after all.
“UN Women will not accept an offer to collaborate on job creation with Uber, so you can rest assured about that,” the group’s executive director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, said last week during an event at the UN’s 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59), which wrapped up yesterday in New York after a two-week run. A short clip of Mlambo-Ngcuka’s remark surfaced on YouTube earlier this week.
In a statement sent to various news outlets, UN Women clarified, “Beyond this event, we have not discussed opportunities to engage with Uber, including in the context of their commitment to create 1 million jobs for women in the next five years. At this point, we do not plan to expand the collaboration.