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Montevideo, July 1st 2025 - 01:59 UTC

Tag: United Nations

  • Friday, April 27th 2018 - 13:09 UTC

    Taking action where we can to stop cybercrime

    A recent estimate put the global cost of cybercrime at 600 billion US dollars.said Yury Fedotov

    By Yury Fedotov is Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (*) - Cyber. It is the inescapable prefix defining our world today. From the privacy of individuals to relations between states, cyber dominates discussions and headlines – so much so that we risk being paralyzed by the magnitude of the problems we face.

  • Monday, April 23rd 2018 - 09:10 UTC

    English Language Days at the UN

    The date traditionally observed as both the birthday and date of death of William Shakespeare

    English Language Day at the UN is celebrated on 23 April, the date traditionally observed as both the birthday and date of death of William Shakespeare. The Day is the result of a 2010 initiative by the Department of Public Information, establishing language days for each of the Organization's six official languages. The purpose of the UN's language days is to celebrate multilingualism and cultural diversity as well as to promote equal use of all six official languages throughout the Organization.

  • Saturday, April 7th 2018 - 10:54 UTC

    UN Mine Awareness Day message: Advancing Protection, Peace and Development

    Teams working in the clearance of mine fields in the Falkland Islands

    On 8 December 2005, the General Assembly declared that 4 April of each year shall be observed as the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action.

  • Saturday, March 24th 2018 - 08:51 UTC

    United Nations agencies on strike over pay and employment conditions

    UN employees around the world have taken industrial action in protest at the cuts in cost of living allowances, with strikes at the ILO and other UN agencies

    The International Trade Unions Congress, ITUC, has called on the United Nations to abandon unilateral pay cuts on UN staff, as well as other changes to employment conditions that would mean different pay rates for the same job and could lead to discrimination, especially against women returning to UN service after taking extended time out for family reasons.

  • Thursday, March 22nd 2018 - 22:33 UTC

    “Water for sustainable development”: UN Secretary-General's message at launch of international decade for action

    By 2050 at least one in four people will live in a country where the lack of fresh water will be chronic or recurrent.

    I am pleased to be with you on World Water Day to launch the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development.

  • Wednesday, March 7th 2018 - 11:21 UTC

    The UN Secretary-General’s Message on International Women’s Day

    More than a billion women around the world lack legal protection against domestic sexual violence said UN Secretary-General’

    We are at a pivotal moment for women’s rights. The historical and structural inequalities that have allowed oppression and discrimination to flourish are being exposed like never before. From Latin America to Europe to Asia, on social media, on film sets, on the factory floor and in the streets, women are calling for lasting change and zero tolerance for sexual assault, harassment, and discrimination of all kinds.

  • Saturday, February 24th 2018 - 09:18 UTC

    UN chief Guterres criticized for accepting Syria in Decolonization Committee top post

    Syria’s Bashar Ja’afari was elected to UN’s Special Committee on Decolonization, C24, guided by the principle of “respect for self-determination of all peoples”.

    UN chief Antonio Guterres was criticized on Thursday by a watchdog group for failing to condemn Syria’s election to a committee charged with working towards decolonization. UN Watch called on US Ambassador Nikki Haley, and European ambassadors to condemn the world body for handing Bashar Assad’s regime what it called “a propaganda victory.”

  • Wednesday, January 31st 2018 - 08:42 UTC

    Guyana/Venezuela border controversy referred to the International Court of Justice

    Secretary-General Guterres stated that he has chosen the International Court of Justice as the means to be used for the solution of the controversy.

    United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres has referred the Guyana/Venezuela border controversy to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In a statement which was published on the UN’s website on Tuesday, Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the Secretary-General stated that Mr Guterres has fulfilled the responsibility that has fallen to him within the framework set by his predecessor in December 2016, and has chosen the International Court of Justice as the means to be used for the solution of the controversy.

  • Monday, December 11th 2017 - 08:29 UTC

    United Nations year-long campaign to honor foundational human rights document 70th anniversary

    “Human rights have been one of the three pillars of the United Nations, along with peace and development,” said Secretary General António Guterres in his message

    The United Nations on Sunday kicked off in Paris, France, a year-long campaign to honor the foundational human rights document, which next year marks its 70th anniversary.

  • Wednesday, November 29th 2017 - 06:45 UTC

    Karen Pierce first woman UK Permanent Representative to United Nations

    “Our security and economic interests depend to a large extent on a strong and effective United Nations” underlined Ambassador Karen Pierce

    Karen Pierce, currently Director-General Political at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, has been appointed as the new UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations. . Karen is the first woman appointed to this role, and is uniquely suited for the position having previously served as Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, and more recently as the Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva.