Thirty years ago the Manila Declaration on the peaceful settlement of international disputes was adopted by the UN. Still, with all the conflict in the world today, the Philippine Ambassador says it remains relevant.
While the declaration takes its name from the capital of the Philippines where it was signed in 1982, it actually maps out a plan for all countries to follow in the peaceful settlement of international disputes.
Women living in India’s Himalayan mountain ranges are gaining control over their natural resources and their lives by utilizing their local wisdom.
The Community Awareness Centre (AADHAR), is a grassroots organization that seeks to empower these rural women by documenting, protecting and promoting their indigenous knowledge.
AADHAR’s Reetu Sogani who was recently in New York for a UN meeting on the status of women, has been researching the traditional knowledge in the Himalayas for the past eight years.
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo gave a special concert at the United Nations dedicated to the global efforts to end Female Genital Mutilation.
Ms. Kidjo says she is passionate about getting African nations to sign a resolution to end the practice.
The Grammy Award Winner is also passionate about the education of girls in Africa.
She spoke to Beng Poblete-Enriquez about the challenges she has faced as a musician and her work as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
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For ages masculinity has been equated with power, toughness and the suppression of one’s emotions, according to the UN Population Fund.
The notion of what it means to be a “man” may have contributed to risky behaviours, sometimes deepening gender inequities, the agency adds.
But a new initiative led by the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex, Britain, is helping men change these harmful social norms to become staunch allies of women’s rights.
Preparations are underway for a first ever summit in South Africa in June to create partnerships between the various nations and the diaspora communities around the world.
As part of these efforts, the African Union recently organized a gathering of lawmakers from Africa and the diaspora in New York.
The meeting, which was facilitated by the Office of the United Nations Special Adviser on Africa, brought together lawmakers, experts and scholars from Africa and the African diaspora.
Forget dot com (.com) soon it will be dot anything you can think of and with that will come a lot of cybersquatting and other domain name disputes.
The UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is already responsible for the protection of intellectual property throughout the world. WIPO will now resolve disputes involving rights to a domain name.
It was given this new role by The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is allowing the new array of Internet domain endings.
Uzbekistan is adopting a child-friendly approach to increase the number of children attending pre-school, according to UNICEF.
The schools are trying to create a safe, inclusive, engaging environment that operates in the best interest of every child.
Pre-school enrolment remains low, with less than 20 per cent of children between the ages of 3 and 5 attending pre-school.
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For the past 66 years, UN Radio has stayed true to its mission of informing the world’s populations.
It has come a long way from the days when it started in 1945, in a makeshift studio in Lake Success, a village outside New York City.
While the technology UN Radio is using has changed, its goals have not.
It continues to promote the universal ideals of the United Nations including peace, respect for human rights, gender equality and international law.
Somalia remains one of the most dangerous places in the world to work as a reporter.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at least 37 journalists have been killed in the line of duty in Somali since 1992.
The latest victim was Hassan Osman Abdi, the Director of Radio Shebelle who was gunned down outside his home in Mogadishu on 28 January.
His murder has been condemned by the UN cultural agency, UNESCO and the top United Nations envoy in Somalia.
