Get up, stand up: Barbados leader invokes Marley to goad U.N

FILE PHOTO: Barbados Prime Minister and Minister for National Security and the Civil Service Mia Amor Mottley speaks at the UN General Assembly 76th session General Debate in UN General Assembly Hall at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., September 24, 2021. John Angelillo/Pool via REUTERS

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - An impassioned Barbados prime minister on Friday sought to spur meaningful action from the 193-member United Nations on crises from climate and COVID-19 vaccines to poverty and education, invoking singer Bob Marley: "Who will get up and stand up?"

"If we can find the will to send people to the moon and solve male baldness ... we can solve simple problems like letting our people eat at affordable prices," Mia Amor Mottley told the annual gathering of world leaders in New York.