Statement on mission to Afghanistan, 5-11 December 2020 by UN Acting Assistant-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Ramesh Rajasingham I am just completing a week-long visit to Afghanistan to draw attention to the massive increase in humanitarian needs due to COVID-19, conflict and climate change. During my visit, I met with First…
Ten finalists in the UNCTAD Empretec Women in Business Awards demonstrate how resilience, sustainability, circularity and inclusiveness are critical success factors in their ventures. Geneva, 11 December 2020 – Code is a base language that will help us build our future. Afnan Kamel Ali, a Jordanian tech entrepreneur, recognized this fact early on in her electrical…
A new mosque was built in the township of Akina with the support of the Turkmen side Today, on December 4, 2020, the opening of a mosque constructed in the township of Akina of the Andkhoy etrap of Faryab province of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan took place as a friendly gesture from the Turkmen…
Galerie Modus « Dessine-moi un cèdre » Exposition hommage au pays des cèdres à Paris C’est à la Galerie Modus, place des Vosges au cœur du Marais à Paris, que l’association « Green Cedar Lebanon » nous invite pour notre plus grand bonheur, à un évènement exceptionnel en hommage au pays du cèdre pour le lancement de l’exposition Dessine-moi un cèdre. Les peintures,…
WHO calls for reinvigoreated action to fight malaria 30 November 2020 – The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on countries and global health partners to step up the fight against malaria, a preventable and treatable disease that continues to claim hundreds of thousands of lives each year. A better targeting of interventions, new tools and…
UN General Assembly extends mandate for High Commissioner Grandi The United Nations General Assembly today renewed the mandate of Filippo Grandi as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for a further two-and-a-half-year-period. The extension of Grandi’s mandate follows a recommendation by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres to the General Assembly. High Commissioner Grandi, welcoming the…
The older you get… EITORIAL – DIVA “The older you get, the quicker the years pass by,” my colleague observed the other day. “Did you know that, according to some contemporary historians, the most important year in the twentieth century was 1979? I presume that was before 2020 and the Covid19 that knocked out the…
25 MILLION TREE SAPLINGS WILL BE PLANTED IN TURKMENISTAN IN 2020 IN HONOR OF THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COUNTRY’S NEUTRALITY In 2020, 25 million saplings of deciduous, fruit trees and grapes will be planted throughout Turkmenistan. This number marks the 25th anniversary of the country’s Permanent Neutrality. Some of the trees were planted during…
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CEREMONY OF DEPOSITING THE INSTRUMENT ON JOINING THE “MARRAKESH TREATY” BY TURKMENISTAN WAS HELD IN GENEVA On the 15th of October, 2020, the ceremony of presenting the Instrument on Turkmenistan’s joining the “Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled” of 2013, signed by…
