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Information and communications technologies have opened up new opportunities and aided efforts towards promoting gender equality. However, they can also be used as tools to perpetrate Gender-Based Violence (GBV). While there is no internationally agreed definition for...
In a world of interlocking crises, climate change, political polarization, anti-rights movements and conflicts, the SDG Summit in September 2023 reminded us of the need to step up our efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), highlighting the...
Global efforts towards achieving gender equality are at an inflection point. In only a few years, we have witnessed an intensifying climate emergency, war and conflict, have and are living through the COVID-19 pandemic and its socio-economic aftershocks, and have seen...
Ambassador Paul Bekkers, you started the “MenEngage circle of Geneva” initiative that aims to actively engage male senior leaders in Geneva in the gender equality conversation. What inspired you to start this initiative? The reason I started this initiative is that I...
When you sign up to work for the UN, safety and security take on a new dimension. There is a level of risk involved (we all know), wherever you are posted. But if you meet with Gilles Michaud, Under-Secretary-General (USG) for the Department of Safety and Security...
In an increasingly unpredictable environment with diverse and complex security challenges, the United Nations Security Management System (UNSMS) is designed to enable the safe delivery of UN mandates and programmes within acceptable security risk levels. Establishing...
Petra Finianos began her United Nations security career with a peacekeeping assignment 16 years ago, and she has travelled to various humanitarian frontiers. “When I first joined the UN, I worked with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. After five...
Broken dreams, destroyed livelihoods, suffering, and tragic events characterize the stories of people who find themselves as refugees in other countries. Fortunately, the kind gestures typically provided to them by host communities, governments, and the United Nations...
During a General Assembly session, there are many things an external observer doesn’t know about. What can you share about your behind-the-scenes experiences? The General Assembly session starts with a “big bang” with the opening of the General Debate when Heads of...
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Information and communications technologies have opened up new opportunities and aided efforts towards promoting gender equality. However, they can also be used as tools to perpetrate Gender-Based Violence (GBV). While there is no internationally agreed definition for...
In a world of interlocking crises, climate change, political polarization, anti-rights movements and conflicts, the SDG Summit in September 2023 reminded us of the need to step up our efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), highlighting the...
Global efforts towards achieving gender equality are at an inflection point. In only a few years, we have witnessed an intensifying climate emergency, war and conflict, have and are living through the COVID-19 pandemic and its socio-economic aftershocks, and have seen...
Ambassador Paul Bekkers, you started the “MenEngage circle of Geneva” initiative that aims to actively engage male senior leaders in Geneva in the gender equality conversation. What inspired you to start this initiative? The reason I started this initiative is that I...
When you sign up to work for the UN, safety and security take on a new dimension. There is a level of risk involved (we all know), wherever you are posted. But if you meet with Gilles Michaud, Under-Secretary-General (USG) for the Department of Safety and Security...
In an increasingly unpredictable environment with diverse and complex security challenges, the United Nations Security Management System (UNSMS) is designed to enable the safe delivery of UN mandates and programmes within acceptable security risk levels. Establishing...
Petra Finianos began her United Nations security career with a peacekeeping assignment 16 years ago, and she has travelled to various humanitarian frontiers. “When I first joined the UN, I worked with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. After five...
Broken dreams, destroyed livelihoods, suffering, and tragic events characterize the stories of people who find themselves as refugees in other countries. Fortunately, the kind gestures typically provided to them by host communities, governments, and the United Nations...
During a General Assembly session, there are many things an external observer doesn’t know about. What can you share about your behind-the-scenes experiences? The General Assembly session starts with a “big bang” with the opening of the General Debate when Heads of...
The General Assembly has long prepared for the start of the 78th session this September. It first began in 1946 in London and has gone on to define the diplomatic calendar for the Autumn months. The mandate of the General Assembly and ECOSOC Affairs Division The...
