Tag: United Nations

• Saturday, April 23rd 2016 - 07:49 UTC

  Di Caprio addresses the UN on Earth Day and to celebrate the Paris Agreement

  

  This year, the United Nations has decided to celebrate Earth Day, 22 April, in a very special way, by signing the Paris Agreement: a landmark climate change accord that came out of negotiations at the COP21 climate summit in Paris last December. This, of course, was extremely great news for climate advocates and ambassadors all over the world, including Oscar-winning actor and UN Messenger of Peace, Leonardo Di Caprio.

• Thursday, April 21st 2016 - 11:22 UTC

  Rousseff will claim before UN she is victim of a “coup d'état without weapons”

  

  Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will travel to New York in a bid to rally international support against her impeachment, leaving behind a Cabinet paralyzed by political crisis as another minister defected Wednesday.

• Saturday, April 16th 2016 - 08:45 UTC

  OAS chief meets Rousseff and disagrees with the impeachment process

  

  Brazilian president President Dilma Rousseff received on Friday in Brasilia the Organization of American States, (OAS), Secretary General Luis Almagro to discuss on the current situation in the country, some regional issues and the role played by OAS.

• Thursday, March 31st 2016 - 00:46 UTC

  “The Argentines are childish stalkers who menace us Falkland Islanders”

  

  By Lisa Watson (*), published in The Telegraph - Having a neighbor like Argentina is like living next door to your stalker – someone who terrorizes you but then tearfully berates you for rejecting their advances.

• Tuesday, March 29th 2016 - 19:48 UTC

  UN announcement has no implications on sovereignty over the Falklands.

  

  A statement released earlier this afternoon from the Falkland Islands Government regarding the UN announcement of the extension of the Argentine continental shelf states that the announcement makes “no adjudication on the sovereignty of the Falkland Island and has no implications for the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands”.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2016 - 06:33 UTC

  International Women’s Day celebrations champion a Planet 50-50 by 2030

  

  International Women's Day celebrations on 8 March will mobilize people around the world to call for a Planet 50-50 by 2030. UN Women is organizing a series of diverse, high-profile events in over 40 countries, where ordinary citizens, activists, musicians, athletes, students, security personnel, scholars and stock exchange officials will be among those who commit to “Stepping It Up for Gender Equality.”

• Tuesday, March 8th 2016 - 06:15 UTC

  International Women's Day: “From the Glass Ceiling to a Carpet of Shards”

  

  By UN Secretary General, Ban Ki moon - As a boy growing up in post-war Korea, I remember asking about a tradition I observed: women going into labor would leave their shoes at the threshold and then look back in fear. “They are wondering if they will ever step into those shoes again,” my mother explained.

• Wednesday, March 2nd 2016 - 23:26 UTC

  UN watchdog blasts Ban Ki-moon blessing of Syria and Venezuela as C24 members

  

  A UN watchdog group criticized Ban Ki-moon for his blessings to the UN committee charged with “decolonizing” among others, the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar, at the same time as the 24-nation group elected mass murdering Syria and human rights abusing Venezuela to leadership posts.

• Tuesday, February 16th 2016 - 15:16 UTC

  Argentina rejoins the real world

  

  UN John J. Metzler(*) Reversing the trend of economic mismanagement, ending a fifteen year debt impasse with foreign lenders, calming a percolating political crisis over the disputed Falkland/Malvinas islands in the South Atlantic, and overcoming the image of unpredictability, Argentina’s new conservative government faces serious obstacles in reintroducing Argentina to an often skeptical world.

• Thursday, February 11th 2016 - 05:45 UTC

  ICAO agrees on first binding limits on emissions from the aviation industry

  

  UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the announcement by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) proposing the first binding limits on emissions from the aviation industry.