22/05/22

Biodiversity Day 22 May

The theme in 2022 is “Building a shared future for all life”. Fitting within the context of the ongoing United Nations Decade on Restoration, which highlights that biodiversity is the answer to several sustainable development challenges, the slogan conveys the message that biodiversity is the foundation upon which we can build back better.
From ecosystem-based approaches to climate and/or nature-based solutions to climate, health issues, food and water security and sustainable livelihoods, biodiversity is the foundation upon which we can build back better. That is the main message from the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), key international instrument for sustainable development.
You can show support for biodiversity with the promotional materials for the Day.

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVnkkJaCuRo,
https://youtu.be/Fnz6Ze9DAB4,
https://youtu.be/by3XMII7sdg,
https://youtu.be/_SzOWbBrUJ0?t=5

20/05/22

World Bee Day. 20 May

Beekeeping is a widespread and global activity, with millions of beekeepers depending on bees for their livelihoods and well-being. Together with wild pollinators, bees play a major role in maintaining biodiversity, ensuring the survival and reproduction of many plants, supporting forest regeneration, promoting sustainability and adaptation to climate change, improving the quantity and quality of agricultural productions.
This year FAO will celebrate World Bee Day through a virtual event, under the theme ‘Bee Engaged: Celebrating the diversity of bees and beekeeping systems’
The event featuring bee and pollinator experts and practitioners from across the world will open with a video message by FAO Director-General QU Dongyu. The event will raise awareness on the importance of the wide variety of bees and sustainable beekeeping systems, the threats and challenges they face and their contribution to livelihoods and food systems. Resolution  A/RES/72/211

17/05/22

World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, 17 May

In November 2006, the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Antalya, Turkey, decided to celebrate both events on 17 May as World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. The updated Resolution 68 invites Member States and Sector Members to celebrate the day annually by organizing appropriate national programmes with a view to:
-stimulating reflection and exchanges of ideas on the theme adopted by the Council
-debating the various aspects of the theme with all partners in society
-formulating a report reflecting national discussions on the issues underlying the theme, to be fed back to ITU and the rest of its membership

23/04/22

World Book and Copyright Day, 23 April 2021

In  celebrating  books,  we  are  also  celebrating  their  authors,  who  provide  us  with  snippets of life and insights into other realities. They open a window onto the world –more precisely, a window onto other worlds and other forms of existence. And for this reason, every year on 23 April -- the day on which the honourable authors William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega passed away –we celebrate writers whose works have been captivating our imagination for centuries. Today,  we  also  pay  homage  to  all  the  professions  associated  with  books:  editing,  translation, publishing and book selling. These fields make it possible to disseminate our  literary  heritage,  to  allow  for  the  expression  of  new  ideas,  and  to  enable  the  spread of stories. These professions must be protected and their value acknowledged. This is all the more  relevant  in  the  midst  of  the  COVID-19  pandemic,  which  poses  a  deep  and  lasting threat to culture.

31/03/22

Bulletin ONUBIB 1 2022

On February 24, 2022, the armed forces of the Russian Federation entered the territory of Ukraine and began an armed action that, as of this writing, seems far from over. In our opinion, this is an action that will remain recorded and is likely to mark the history of the United Nations.
A Bulletin like this one, which aims to spread the Organization's action, promote its goals and principles, cannot fail to express its opinion on these events.
The signatories of this introduction condemn the armed action carried out by Russia; we condemn the actions carried out by the Russian armed forces on the territory of Ukraine, including war crimes that must not go unpunished; We condemn the attempt to destabilize an international order based on the principles of sovereign equality of all States, prohibition of the use of force, prohibition of intervention in internal affairs and the obligation to cooperate to resolve conflicts by peaceful means and achieve economic development , social and humanitarian of all peoples.
In our daily work we will continue disseminating the Organization's activity, promoting, to the best of our ability, its purposes and principles, and openly declaring that only dialogue and cooperation will lead Humanity to continue progressing.
In the pages of this Newsletter, the reader will be able to see the action of the United Nations in many areas: peace, environment, social development, human rights, international justice, humanitarian affairs, SDGs, etc. All this action is carried out in compliance with the purposes established in the Charter and with full respect for its principles.
On this occasion, we have been forced to include a section on the conflict in Ukraine. In this section the reader will see that we include some of the initiatives carried out by the Organization. Initiatives that, in the political sphere, are very limited by the weight of the great powers in the decision-making procedures, but that in the technical sphere of the United Nations Agencies and Organizations reflect that, despite the war, the personnel from those bodies and agencies are still on the ground in Ukraine trying to carry out their mission. There, on the ground, in the midst of the bombs, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNFPA, UNDP, WHO and IAEA continue to work. Its workers and officials risk their lives to fulfill the mission that the Organization has entrusted to them: protect the displaced and refugees, protect children and guarantee their basic rights, guarantee health resources, food, etc.
This work is the one that responds to the purposes and principles of the Organization. Which, if it did not exist, would have to be invented.
From here, our most sincere tribute to those men and women who are willing to give everything, including their lives, to guarantee the dignity of all human beings under the United Nations flag. https://news.un.org/en/