Conferencia del Departamento de Información Pública de la ONU para las ONG - 2018

6 julio 2018

La Conferencia del Departamento de Información Pública (DIP) de la ONU para las ONG (22 y 23 de agosto de 2018, en la sede de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York) es una oportunidad para que las Organizaciones no Gubernamentales de todo el mundo se reúnan para abordar cuestiones mundiales de interés para el trabajo de las Naciones Unidas. Recientes conferencias anuales han atraído a más de 2000 delegados de la sociedad civil de todas las regiones de la tierra. El tema de este año, “Nosotros los Pueblos... buscando juntos soluciones globales a los problemas globales”, se centrará en la importancia del multilateralismo para la solución de los problemas del mundo.

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World Goodwill Plays the 2030 SDGs Game

27 junio 2018

Last month two representatives from World Goodwill were delighted to attend a gathering in Islington, London, to participate in one of the launch events for the English language edition of a board game designed to deepen understanding of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Speaks from the Heart

23 junio 2018

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, will be resigning next year at the end of his four-year term. In his final Global Update on the state of human rights to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on June 18, he spoke from the heart.

Those of us in the UN Secretariat, originating from all the 193 Member States, work collaboratively and we do not answer to any State. In contrast, too many governments represented at the UN will often pull in the opposing direction: feigning a commitment to the common effort, yet fighting for nothing more than their thinly-thought interests, taking out as much as they can from the UN, politically, while not investing in making it a true success. The more pronounced their sense of self-importance – the more they glory in nationalism – the more unvarnished is the assault by these governments on the overall common good: on universal rights, on universal law and universal institutions, such as this one.

And as the attack on the multilateral system and its rules, including most especially international human rights law, intensifies, so too will the risk increase of further mischief on a grander scale. The UN’s collective voice must therefore be principled and strong; not weak and whining, obsessed with endless wrangling over process, the small things, as it is the case today.

If my Office, of which I am very proud, and I, have gotten one thing right over the last few years, it is our understanding that only fearlessness is adequate to our task at this point in time. Not ducking for cover, or using excuses or resorting to euphemisms, but a fearlessness approaching that shown by human rights defenders around the world – for only by speaking out can we begin to combat the growing menace of chauvinistic nationalism that stalks our future.

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World Goodwill Attends 2017 Forum on Culture of Peace at UN

25 octubre 2017

Every year since 2012 the President of the UN General Assembly has convened a High-Level Forum on the Culture of Peace. With the support of member nations (102 governments sponsored the resolution calling for this year’s event) the Forum aims to highlight emerging trends impacting on the realization of the culture of peace, defined as a set of values, attitudes, traditions and modes of behaviour and ways of life based on universal principles of freedom, justice and peace. 

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Allí donde el Mundo va a Dialogar: La Asamblea General de la ONU

6 septiembre 2017

Este ensayo reflexivo en la edición de Septiembre de Le Monde diplomatique de Anne-Cécile Robert y Romuald Sciora ofrece una visión de los últimos acontecimientos en la Asamblea General. Destaca el importante papel que desempeña la Asamblea en los asuntos internacionales.

La AG es el único organismo representativo del planeta, pero no es un parlamento mundial: sólo las elecciones podrían darle la legitimidad de un parlamento en un estado democrático y eso es probablemente poco realista. Sin embargo, la AG es única en su capacidad de reflejar el cambio en las relaciones internacionales (la sorprendente elección de Thomson, la movilización de los pequeños estados y China) y en sus valores, derivados de la Carta de la ONU, aprovechando el deseo de poder al servicio de la seguridad colectiva. En un momento en que el rediseño del mapa geopolítico está levantando tensiones, es, a pesar de las imperfecciones, el único foro que conduce al establecimiento de un orden internacional progresista.

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