Feb 28, 2017
News, United Nations
Bashar al-Assad’s, British Ambassador, Chemical Weapons, Civilian Population, imposing sanctions, Joint Investigative Mechanism, Matthew Rycroft, Mounzer Mounzer, Nikki R. Haley, OPCW, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, resolution, Security Council, Syria, Syrian Ambassador, Syrian War, UN, united nations, Veto
United Nations, New York, USA, 28 February 2017 – Nikki R. Haley, United States Permanent Representative to the UN during the Security Council meeting on Syria use of Chemical weapons on there Civilian Population today at the UN Headquarters in New York. Photo: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire United Nations, February 28 2017 A resolution imposing sanctions regarding the use and production of chemical weapons in Syria was rejected by the Security Council today as Russia and China vetoed the draft. After the vote, United States Ambassador Nikki Haley told the Council Russia and China had made “an outrageous and indefensible choice today” [Read More]
Feb 27, 2017
Celebrities, News, United Nations
Big Goals, Carlos Islam, Climate Change, Demi Lovato, Global Goals, International Day of Happiness, SDGs, Small Smurfs, SmallSmurfsBigGoals, Smurf, Smurf Village, Smurfs movie, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Lost Village, The Smurfs., UN, UN Foundation, UNICEF
by Britta Schmitz UNITED NATIONS, Feb 27 2017 – The UN, UNICEF and the UN Foundation announced the launch of a new campaign to promote the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in cooperation with Sony Pictures’ The Smurfs. The campaign is called Small Smurfs, Big Goals and will be linked to the International Day of Happiness celebrated 20 March. The Smurfs will raise awareness around the SDGs and educate a young audience on what they can do to support the seventeen Global Goals. The message is that as a team, anyone, even a small Smurf, can achieve big goals. Last year, [Read More]
Feb 18, 2017
Celebrities, News
Action Dolls, Billy and Mason, Boy Story, Gender Equality, HeForShe, Javits Center, Katie Jarvis, Kristen Jarvis Johnson, New York, TOY SHOW, UN, UN Women, USA
by Britta Schmitz NEW YORK / UNITED NATIONS, 18 February 2017 – The company Boy Story from Florida developed a boy doll that is aimed at both girls and boys to transform the way children engage in imaginative pretend play. In cooperation with UN Women’s HeForShe movement, the company created boy dolls in order to help boys boost their emotional intelligence and work towards gender equality from an early childhood stage. “Emotional intelligence is a very important skill that many parents are focused on right now, because we’ve seen that especially boys when they grow up are lacking in those [Read More]
