05/06/23

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library team congratulates Consuelo Pons on her retirement

We are sending our sincere thanks to Ms. Consuelo Pons Pons for 25 years of service at the library of the University of Valencia (Spain), from which she retired recently.

Since 1997, Consuelo had been a very active and engaged UN Depository Librarian. With her expertise she took charge of the UN collection that had been established at her library in 1966. She instructed incoming student generations on how to use the resources and organized many events to promote and display UN publications and documents. In 2015, she created the ONUBIB newsletter that was distributed to Spanish-speaking UN Depository Librarians for several years and in which she shared her expert knowledge of UN resources with the community.

30/05/23

UN CINEMA and Humans Fest together València

Within the framework of the Humans Fest, the UN base in Valencia together with UNRIC and CIMA participate in this Festival for human rights together with the Fundación por la Justícia.

From June 1 to 10, attendees will be able to participate in a program of more than 40 fiction and documentary films.

06/03/23

International Women's Day 2023: "For an inclusive digital world: Innovation and technology for gender equality"

The United Nations celebration of International Women's Day recognizes and honors women and girls and women's and feminist organizations who are fighting for the advancement of transformative technology and access to digital education. International Women's Day 2023 will explore the effects of the digital gender divide on growing social and economic inequalities. It will also highlight the importance of protecting the rights of women and girls in digital spaces and addressing gender-based violence online and that facilitated by new communication technologies.

Incorporating women, as well as those traditionally marginalized groups, into technology allows for more creative solutions and has greater potential for innovations that meet women's needs and promote gender equality. Its lack of inclusion, on the other hand, has an enormous cost. According to UN Women's Gender Snapshot 2022 report, the exclusion of women from the digital world has cut $1 trillion from the gross domestic product of low- and middle-income countries in the past decade, a loss that will rise to $1.5 trillion by 2025 if no action is taken. To reverse this trend, it will be necessary to address the problem of online violence, which, according to a study carried out in 51 countries, 38% of women have personally suffered.

Incorporating a transformative gender perspective in innovation, technology and digital education would help women and girls learn more about their rights and enhance their exercise and activism. Advances in digital technology offer new possibilities to solve humanitarian and development challenges and to realize the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda. Unfortunately, the opportunities that the digital revolution opens up also pose the risk of perpetuating the current dynamics of gender inequality. Growing inequalities are increasingly evident in the context of digital skills and access to technologies, a digital divide that leaves women behind. Therefore, the development of digital and inclusive education and transformative technology is a fundamental requirement for a sustainable future.

30/12/22

Bulletin international days 2023

The United Nations dedicates certain days, weeks, years and decades to celebrate specific events or themes, in order to promote, through awareness and action, the objectives of the Organization. In general, it is the Member States that propose these commemorations and the General Assembly approves them through a resolution. These celebrations are sometimes declared by the specialized agencies of the United Nations System - such as UNESCO, UNICEF, FAO, etc. - when it comes to matters that fall within their field of competence. This has created a calendar with International Days, Weeks, Years and Decades that is constantly updated, since new commemorations are established frequently.Although there are several names by which these designated dates can be designated - international, world, universal days of the UN, etc. - the use of one term or another does not make any difference in terms of the nature of the days. . It is only the preference of the author of the proposal.

21/12/22

Bulleti ONUBIB 4 2022

We end the year 2022 with this fourth Bulletin in which, once again, we are forced to include a section on the war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine.
In previous Bulletins we have already discussed this conflict and the challenge it poses to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
But in this Bulletin we want to highlight the rest of the sections of the Bulletin. The reader will find timely information in it about the start of the 77th session of the General Assembly,
as well as the annual report of the Secretary General on the work of the Organization. Both sections are essential to understand the breadth of the challenges, ambitions, achievements and setbacks of
the activity of the World Organization in the last year.
The activity carried out in the fields of maintaining international peace and security; economic and social development; respect, protection and guarantee of human rights; attention to the most pressing humanitarian issues; cooperation in the field of drug control, crime prevention and the fight against terrorism; of action to achieve the disarmament of nuclear, chemical and conventional weapons; the promotion of justice and international law in international relations; of environmental protection; or the advances in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, are an example of an improbable activity of the United Nations Organization that neither the war in Ukraine nor international tensions manage to stop.
An important milestone on this path, fully reported in the Bulletin, has been the proclamation, by the General Assembly, of access to a clean and healthy environment, as a universal human right. This is an essential step to be able to demand that all authorities, national and international, exercise respectful, protective and rehabilitative policies for the environment. It is not convenient, it is a requirement whose non-compliance implies a serious violation of individual and collective human rights.
Without a doubt, it is a satisfaction to be able to continue counting the advances in the achievement of the purposes and principles that have inspired the United Nations since 1945.
However, we must admit that we do not know if we will be able to continue carrying out this task in the future. This Bulletin is not only the last Bulletin of the year 2022, but we fear that, if the means to avoid it are not adopted, it could also be the last ONUBIB Bulletin.