26/09/22

Bulletin ONUBIB 3 2022

Dear readers:
As every year, the session of the United Nations General Assembly began on the third Tuesday of September. If last year the center of attention was the re-election of the Secretary General and the COVID 19 pandemic, this year it is the war in Ukraine. The debates in the General Assembly are a clear indication of the concerns of the international community and this Bulletin reflects those same concerns.
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Naturally, many of the problems that the international community had in September of last year remain. Thus, issues related to climate change, development, drug control, etc., also continue to be at the center of the debate of the new session of the General Assembly and of the Organization's activity. The reader will find specific reference to them in the following pages.
 

13/09/22

Apertura Periodo de Sessiones 77 AG

Opening dates of forthcoming regular sessions of the General Assembly and of the general debate  A/INF/77/4/Rev.1

Seventy-seventh

Tuesday, 13 September 2022 Tuesday, 20 September 2022

11/07/22

World Population Day. 11 July

World Population Day, which aims to draw attention to the urgency and importance of population issues, was established through the then United Nations Development Program Governing Council in 1989.
In resolution 45/216 of December 1990, the United Nations General Assembly decided to maintain World Population Day to raise awareness of population issues, including their relationship to the environment and development. The Day was first celebrated on July 11, 1990 in more than 90 countries. Since then, various offices of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in different countries, as well as other organizations and institutions, commemorate World Population Day in collaboration with governments and civil society.
Its primary objective is to create awareness in relation to all the problems that currently affect the world's population, especially in matters related to the growth and development of peoples.You can read https://www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/EN_SWP22%20report_0.pdf and access more resources at https://www.un.org/en/observances/world-population-day/resources at https://www.unfpa.org/es/publications
See video at https://youtu.be/BgcasGopXEI

20/06/22

World Refugee Day

Our world day for this 2022 is "Whoever. Wherever, Whenever. Everyone has the right to seek protection".
Regardless of who they are, people forced to flee deserve to be treated with dignity. Anyone can seek protection, no matter who they are or what they believe. Seeking protection is a human right that is not subject to negotiation.
No matter where they come from, people forced to flee need to be welcomed. Refugees come from different parts of the world. To escape danger, they may fly, board a boat, or travel on foot. The only thing that does have a universal character is the right to seek protection.
Regardless of when they have been forced to flee, displaced people have the right to protection. Regardless of the type of threat (war, violence, persecution), everyone deserves protection and has the right to be in a safe environment.
To consult resources: https://www.refworld.org/

13/06/22

Bulletin ONUBIB 2 2022

Our introduction to the previous issue focused exclusively on the conflict provoked by Russia in Ukraine and its possible consequences for the United Nations Organization. More than three months after its start, the conflict is still there and its consequences are beginning to be felt in all corners of the planet. Not only the political order has been altered. The humanitarian, social and strategic consequences are becoming global and the threats are felt in every corner of this increasingly globalized world. All this has led us to open a new section of this Bulletin, hopefully temporary, dedicated to the conflict in Ukraine and its global consequences.
On the contrary, with satisfaction we closed a section that we were forced to open two years ago and that, although it continues to be a global problem, is already one more problem among the issues of economic and social development that the World Organization is facing and that starts to get overwhelmed. We are referring to the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID 19) which, although it continues to be one of the issues to which the United Nations continues to pay attention, since we are far from having eradicated it, has reached the stage of not only acting to alleviate its consequences, but to reinforce the work to learn lessons from experience in order to be prepared in the event of a new health emergency of these dimensions. For this reason, we have included the references to the action of the United Nations on the pandemic in the section on economic and social development (where all issues related, among others, to health are addressed) and we have deleted the specific section that we opened in the bulletin nº 2 of 2020.
Naturally, the section that we not only did not close, but that remains essential and in which, moreover, the work of the United Nations is particularly affected by the social and economic consequences of both the war in Ukraine and the pandemic, is the section dedicated to the SDGs. If in 2020 there were special difficulties in achieving any of the 2030 Agenda Goals, without a doubt the pandemic first and the war in Ukraine later, they are putting sticks on the wheels of global action to achieve all the objectives. The United Nations is aware of this and redoubles its efforts to work collectively to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way. The reader will find abundant information on the action of the United Nations in this framework in section 11 of this Bulletin.
As the reader of this Bulletin is well aware, the action of the United Nations is not limited to these fields of action, since the World Organization has general powers and works in the fields of peace and security, disarmament, justice and international law, environmental protection, human rights and humanitarian problems, economic and social development in all its dimensions, etc. For this reason, you will be able to find in this specific Bulletin information on some of the activities carried out by the United Nations during the last quarter. This Bulletin is intended to be an instrument for the selective dissemination of information. We cannot express in it everything that the United Nations has done in a quarter, but the reader can be sure that we have made an effort to highlight some of the main milestones of this activity. Naturally, at the United Nations Depository Library of the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia (ONUBIB) we are at your disposal to carry out searches on specific subjects that may interest you.
As always, we end by asking you to continue helping us in our continuous reflection, sending us your criticisms, suggestions or proposals so that we live up to what society and the United Nations demand of us.