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News - 22 Luglio

WHO’s Tedros Backs Tokyo Olympic Games “Power to Inspire”

“More than any other event (the Games) have the power to bring the world together; to inspire; to show what is possible,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) told the International Olympic Committee, with the Olympic flame in his hand. He warned that the world was now in the early stages of another wave of infections […]

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U.N. - 19 Luglio

A Year Ago Mario Paciolla Died in Colombia: the UN Says it is Collaborating

A year ago, Mario Paciolla died in his apartment in San Vicente del Caguán in Colombia. On July 15th, 2020, a sheet wrapped around his neck took his breath away and stopped the beating of his big heart that he has always put at the service of the needy. He was a young and brilliant […]

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News - 25 Giugno

Outgoing United Nations ‘Relief Chief’ On Humanitarian Issues and Needs

When he accepted the offer to become UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, four years ago, Mark Lowcock had hoped the need for aid globally was on the decline. But due to protracted and emerging conflicts, the rising impacts of climate change, and the toll of diseases such as Ebola – and now of […]

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U.N. - 14 Giugno

US Ambassador at the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield Speaks with Axios’ Mike Allen

MIKE ALLEN: Madam Ambassador, Mike Allen. Hi. AMBASSADOR LINDA THOMAS-GREENFIELD: Hi, how are you? MIKE ALLEN: Thank you so much for having us. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, you are the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Thank you for hosting Axios on HBO. AMBASSADOR THOMAS-GREENFIELD: Thank you very much. MIKE ALLEN: The UN is a strange place now that […]

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U.N. - 7 Febbraio

We Need Bold Global Leadership to Build Back Better and Fight Climate Change

Some quick wins are available however, that would set us on the right path. First, rich countries must commit to “doing whatever it takes” to vaccinate the entire planet including easing intellectual property rules at the WTO to allow manufacture of the vaccines in developing countries.... Finally, creditor countries should allow developing countries to transfer debt service payments to their health budgets for the duration of the pandemic and offer a plan for extending debt relief to the countries in greatest economic distress.

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New York - 30 Gennaio

NYC Mayor’s Office for International Affairs Announces Junior Ambassadors

Continuing the City’s commitment to young New Yorkers, Commissioner Penny Abeywardena of the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs today launched the 6th cohort of the NYC Junior Ambassadors program by announcing this year’s participants. Representing all five boroughs of New York City, the diverse group of more than 500 seventh-grade students and educators from 15 schools […]

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U.N. - 14 Gennaio

Six Months Without Mario Paciolla, Without Truth and the UN Tells us to Wait

Six months have passed since Mario Paciolla’s death, the Italian volunteer serving at the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia. The doubts are still many. Family and friends call for justice and even the foreign minister, Luigi Di Maio, has launched an appeal for the truth. The 33-year-old Neapolitan was found hanged with a sheet […]

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U.N. - 10 Dicembre 2020

Mazara Fishermen in Libya: Strong Message from the Bishop, but for Whom?

Meanwhile, La Voce di New York asked both the UN Secretary General and the General Assembly UN President spokespersons if a military intervention by the Italian government to free its fishermen caught in international waters would be considered legal.

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U.N. - 20 Ottobre 2020

Mario Paciolla, Autopsy in Colombia Ruled a Suicide, But the UN Remains Cautious

More than 90 days have now passed since the death of Carmine Mario Paciolla, the 33-year-old from Naples, a UN volunteer in Colombia. After almost a month of silence, over the weekend, the magazine “Semana” published the results of the autopsy carried out by Colombian doctors. The evaluation confirmed the suicide, “if the investigative work […]

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U.N. - 25 Settembre 2020

UNGA75, Italy Says: the Vaccine for Covid-19 “Will Be Collective Heritage”

Italian Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, 75 years ago, from the ashes of a global conflict that devastated nations and peoples, the birth of the Organization of the United Nations marked a new beginning for world history, founded on the shared values of freedom, peace and democracy. Today we are faced […]

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