EVELINA RIOUKHINA Interview with Mr. Sven ALKALAJ, Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe How does it feel to cover the position of Under-Secretary-General, the ES of the ECE in Geneva? Has it always been your dream to work for the United Nations, especially in such a high and honourable [...]
FRÉDÉRIC BALLENEGGER, UNS, NEW YORK Brice Lalonde, Coordonnateur exécutif de la Conférence de l’ONU sur le développement durable, Rio+20 Brice Lalonde, vous avez été militant, candidat à l’élection présidentielle, ministre, aujourd’hui vous représentez le Sommet de l’ONU sur le développement durable Rio+20. Quel regard portez-vous sur ce parcours? J’ai cherché à rester fidèle à [...]
EVELINA RIOUKHINA Federica Pietracci, Sustainable Development Officer at the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development was part of the Rio+20 Conference Secretariat Team. We managed to ask several questions immediately after the closure of the Conference. Read directly from Rio: What does it mean to organize such a Conference [...]
BRIGITTE PERRIN/ FRED BALLENEGGER, RIO DE JANEIRO/ NEW YORK La presse critique, l’opinion publique ne réagit presque plus. Une nouvelle fois, les Etats Membres n’ont pas conclu de texte véritablement opérationnel en faveur du développement durable à Rio. Temps perdu, manque d’énergie, de leadership ou intérêts contradictoires ? Ces critiques, bien que parfois justifiées, [...]
CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA (CITES) JOHN E. SCANLON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CITES There are now seven billion people consuming biodiversity every day in the form of medicines, food, clothes, furniture, perfumes and luxury goods – and hundreds of millions of people depend on biodiversity for their livelihoods [...]
NICOLAS-ÉMILIEN ROZEAU Je souhaiterais conclure mon cycle d’entretiens sur le thème de la planète avec une personne remarquable, Haidar El Ali. Haidar El Ali, vous êtes le fondateur de l’association Océanium au Sénégal. Vous avez redonné vie aux mangroves de Casamance. Vous avez édifié des Aires Marines Protégées pour la faune et la flore [...]
TAKING THE FIGHT AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE TO NEW HEIGHTS On 9 March, 70 intrepid, exhausted activists reached the base of Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro, to extensive celebrations. They had accomplished a grueling yet rewarding feat: taking awareness of gender-based violence to new heights. The challenging five-day summit climb was organized as part of the [...]
TIMOTHY CHALLEN In March 2011, soon after coming down from Mount Kilimanjaro, I wrote a concept note for the 2012 climb. The theme focused on the issue of sexual violence against women, as I know one too many women who have suffered from such abuse. Having achieved a certain maturity, KI was able to [...]
PALAIS DES NATIONS (www.unog.ch/openday2012) Samedi 15 septembre 2012 (de 11h00 à18h00) Suite au succès de la dernière journée portes ouvertes organisée en 2010, lorsque 6500 personnes avaient visité le Palais http://www.unspecial.org/UNS697/t44.html, l’Office des Nations Unies ouvrira une partie des bâtiments ainsi que le Parc Ariana au public le 15 septembre prochain. Les objectifs sont [...]
CHRISTIAN DAVID, UNOG EDITED BY SARAH JORDAN 1992: Andrey Vasilyev, Deputy Executive Secretary for UNECE, was present at the fi rst conference in Rio 20 years ago. How did you come to participate in this conference? Well in fact, it was sheer coincidence that I was posted as a delegate for my government’s mission [...]
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