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In occasione dell’anno internazionale della solidarietà con il popolo palestinese, il professore emerito di linguistica al Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Noam Chomsky, nonchè intellettuale schierato per la difesa della Palestina, è intervenuto all'ONU sul conflitto più lungo del Medio Oriente. L'ISIS?...

Cosa significa scrivere di Nazioni Unite e raccontare sui giornali meccanismi e retroscena di importante organizzazione internazionale? Lo hanno spiegato, al Graduate Center della CUNY, nell'incontro Covering the UN i giornalisti Sengupta (New York Times), Lynch (Foreign Policy) e Vaccara...

Unità e cooperazione: queste le parole d'ordine pronunciate dal Segretario Generale delle Nazioni Unite. Ban Ki-moon ha lanciato un appello a tutti i capi di stato del mondo per combattere le tre grandi crisi del momento: cambiamento climatico, ISIL (ISIS) e Ebola. Sul...

The UN campaign against the centuries-old use of Female Genital Mutilation goes on while more and more people refuse the weak argument of tradition. A girl’s in-tact hymen increases her value when she is offered to a prospective husband and...

While the importance of freedom of the press was being discussed at a recent UNESCO conference held at the UN Headquarters,  a group of countries were working towards the elimination of this topic from being one of the Millennium Goals

The United Nations celebrated the anniversary of the Rome Statute, which established the formation of the International Criminal Court. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stated: "This is a day for all of us to underscore a crucial point: justice matters." For Italy's Ambassador Sebastiano...

As it gets closer to the presidential elections in Burundi, tensions rise, says UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ivan Šimonovic, after a three-day trip to assess the country's situation

In an emotional ceremony at the UN Headquarters, the United Nations Population Fund Award given to Father Aldo Marchesini, the missionary-doctor that in Mozambique gave his all to the victmis of poverty and violence: “You have the poor with you always. In contrast,...

Italy Teams with Thailand, Qatar and UNODC in strengthening “The Rule of Law”