|
|
|
| |
|
|
| 2009 World
Water Week: "Responding to Global
Changes: Accessing Water for the Common
Good” |
| STOCKHOLM,
16 August 2009 - Access to water is
becoming more challenging every year
due to a rising water demand and unreliable
availability. With almost one billion
people lacking access to safe water,
the annual World Water Week (16-22 August)
serves as a forum for global leaders
and experts to share innovative solutions
on water-related issues and its impact
on poverty, health, education, gender
equality and the environment. |
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
| EMERGENCY
IN COLOMBIA FROM HEAVY RAINS |
Given the serious
rainy season emergency that is punishing
the country, and which to date has left
more than a million persons affected,
including more than half a million children,
what measures do you think should be
taken to prevent a rain emergency? What
would you suggest so that all of us
together can help and give support for
the affected populations?
|
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
 |
 |
UNITED NATIONS
IN COLOMBIA CONDEMNS A NEW MASSACRE OF AWÁ
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
Bogotá,
August 26,2009 – The Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in
Colombia and the group of organizations in the
United Nations System in Colombia, strongly condemn
the assassination of at least seven persons, including
six Awá people, today at dawn in the Gran
Rosario indigenous reservation, in the municipality
o Tumaco (Nariño).
|
 |
UNICEF names Ambassador
Family to promote and strengthen messages on early
childhood
Bogotá, August 20, 2009. With the signing
of a Goodwill Alliance, UNICEF officially names
Carlos Vives, Claudia Elena Vásquez and
their one-year-old daughter Elena UNICEF as its
Goodwill Ambassador Family.
|
| |
| |
| |
|
United Nations commemorates
World Humanitarian Day in Quibdó, with
victims and humanitarian workers
AUGUST 19, 2009
Bogotá, Colombia: August 14. Every day,
thousands of persons around the world risk all
to alleviate the human suffering of the victims
of conflicts and natural disasters. The world
is paying homage to them this Wednesday, August
19, a day declared by the UN General Assembly
as World Humanitarian Day. The United Nations
System in Colombia will commemorate this day in
Quibdó, capital of the Department of Chocó,
with the most affected and vulnerable communities.
|
|
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH
DAY.
AUGUST 12 / 2009
The theme of this year’s International Youth
Day -– “Sustainability: Our Challenge.
Our Future” –- is a global call to
action for young men and women. Our world faces
multiple interconnected crises with severe and
far-reaching impacts that fall disproportionately
on the young.
|
|
 CENTRAL
AXIS OF THE UN STAND AT THE 22ND INTERNATIONAL BOOK
FAIR WILL BE THE COPENHAGEN SUMMIT: “SEAL
THE DEAL – POWER GREEN GROWTH, PROTECT THE
PLANET”
Bogotá, August 11, 2009 – The United
Nations Organization in Colombia is present at the
22nd International Book Fair, being held in Bogotá
between August 12 and 23, in Corferias. In its first-level
stand in Pavilion 1, the UN – through its
21 offices, agencies and programmes – invites
fair attendees to join the “Seal the Deal”
campaign it is leading to promote political will
and public support for reaching a global accord
on the climate next December in Copenhagen. |
|
CHILD NUTRITION AND
FOOD SECURITY PROGRAMME LAUNCHED IN CHOCÓ
National and international entities have signed
an agreement with Acción Social to implement
a joint programme called “The indigenous
and Afro-Colombian communities of Chocó
promote their food and nutritional security”.
The programme will invest 7.5 million dollars
provided by the Government of Spain through the
Fund to Meet the Millennium Development Goals.
|
|
 -
PANDI News -
Children and Adolescents in the Colombian Press
Today
(Spanish)
|
|
|
 |
 |
|
|
