by Georgina Bencsik | Oct 24, 2019 | Diplomacy, English, Events, Global Affairs, Global citizen, Home, international day, Miscellaneous, National Capital Region Branch (NCRB), press release, SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals, UN GA, UNA-Canada, United Nations, United Nations Association in Canada
United Nations Day highlights the enduring ideals of the Charter, which entered into force on this date 74 years ago. Amid stormy global seas, the Charter remains our shared moral anchor.” — UN Secretary-General António Guterres UN Day marks the anniversary...
by Georgina Bencsik | Oct 18, 2019 | AGM, canada, community engagement, Development, Diplomacy, English, Events, Global Affairs, Global citizen, Human Rights, international day, International Development Program, Miscellaneous, NAGM, National Capital Region Branch (NCRB), Ottawa, peace, SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals, UN GA, UNA-Canada, UNESCO, United Nations, United Nations Association in Canada, Volunteers
Dear friends, ​Next year, 2020, will be the UN’s 75th anniversary. It will be marked not only a year from now on UN Day, October 24, 2020, but around the world with discussions between now and then about the state of the world and what the United Nations has...
by Georgina Bencsik | Oct 24, 2018 | Global Affairs, Global citizen, international day, UN GA, UNA-Canada, United Nations
UN Day marks the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the UN Charter. With the ratification of this founding document by the majority of its signatories, including the five permanent members of the Security Council, the United Nations officially came into...
by Georgina Bencsik | Sep 28, 2018 | canada, Global Affairs, Global citizen, Miscellaneous, UN GA, UNA-Canada, United Nations, youth
For women foreign ministers and activists, a historic first in Montreal At the first official Women Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, Canada provided a window for activists to shape ideas about what a feminist foreign policy should look like. Those present tell...
by Georgina Bencsik | May 3, 2018 | canada, community engagement, cyberspace, Development, Diplomacy, ECOSOC, English, Events, freedom, French, Global Affairs, Global citizen, Human Rights, international day, International Development Program, internet, Miscellaneous, NGO, press, Sustainable Development Goals, UN GA, UNESCO, world press
Please click on the link to access today’s live feed Live feed from the UN “On World Press Freedom Day 2018, I call on governments to strengthen press freedom, and to protect journalists. Promoting a free press is standing up for our right to truth.”...
by Georgina Bencsik | Apr 6, 2018 | canada, community engagement, Development, Diplomacy, English, Events, French, Global Affairs, Global citizen, Miscellaneous, nuclear disarmament, Nuclear Weapons, Ottawa, peace, SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals, UN GA, United Nations
Join us on April 19th Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons CNANW Roundtable & Meeting – April 19, 2018 Note: Media Event at 11 AM Venue: Garden Room, Elizabeth Bruyere Hospital, 43 Bruyère St., Ottawa. (TBC) CNANW Roundtable: “Upcoming Challenges;...
