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26/06/2022
If you are someone who would like to collaborate with the UN but do not know how to do it, this article may interest you. Have you ever considered volunteering for the UN? The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme contributes to peace and development through volunteerism around the world. In 2018, for example, 7,201 UN Volunteers were deployed around the world, of which 81% came from...
17/04/2022
Since ancient times, human beings have been in constant transit. Some people move looking for jobs or new economic opportunities, to reunite with family or to study. Others leave to escape conflict, persecution, terrorism or human rights violations or abuses. Some do so due to the adverse effects of climate change, natural disasters, or other environmental factors.
Today, the number of people living...
02/03/2022
The struggles of the indigenous villages
There are more than 476 million indigenous villages living in 90 countries worldwide, representing 6.2% of the global population. Indigenous villages are holders of a great diversity of cultures, traditions, languages, unique knowledge systems and have a special relationship with their lands.
Although numerous indigenous...
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03/02/2022
Times are changing. We probably have heard this sentence so many times during the last couple of decades that it may seem as if nothing is actually changing. But, especially since the pandemic, it is clear that our systems of production and ways of living are not working anymore –if they ever did–...
23/12/2021
Today is the World Arabic Language Day, one of the six official UN languages, the others being Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian and English. The Department of Global Communications established one World Day for each of its official languages with the purpose of celebrating multilingualism and...
10/12/2021
Why Human Rights are still so important
December 10th, 1948, Paris. The General Assembly of the United Nations proceeded to the vote of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , which was approved by the 58 member states at that time, with 48 votes in favor and 8 abstentions. The document was conceived as a “common standard of achievement...