Dec 3, 2019
Celebrities, News, United Nations
Actor, architect, Ark of Return, Blood Diamond, Congressional Black Caucus, designer, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Zwick’s, fight against racism, Gate of No Return, Haitian-American, Producer, Rodney Leon, slave trade, UN, united nations, United States, Victims of Slavery
Members of the United States Congressional Black Caucus visit the Ark of Return at UN Headquarters. With them were Djimon Hounsou, Actor and Producer, and Rodney Leon, Haitian-American architect and designer of the Ark of Return today at the UN Headquarters in New York. Photo: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire United Nations, December 02, 2019 Members of the US Congressional Black Caucus were joined by Benin’s actor Djimon Hounsou today at the UN’s Ark of Return memorial to reflect on the transatlantic slave trade’s cruel history and legacies. US Congressional Black Caucus delegation is in New York on a two-day learning [Read More]
Nov 21, 2019
Celebrities, News, United Nations
30th Anniversary, Climate Change, Convention, Convention on the Rights of the Child, David Beckham, Executive Director of UNICEF, General Assembly, Goodwill Ambassador, Greta Thunberg, Henrietta Fore, Millie Bobby Brown, Rights of Child, Rights of the Child, sustainable global development, UN, UN General Assembly, UNICEF, united nations
United Nations, New York, USA, November 20, 2019 – David Beckham, Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, at the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child today at the UN Headquarters in New York. Photo: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire UN General Assembly, November 20, 2019 Marking the World Children’s Day, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham today said, “As leaders, as public figures, as parents and of course as human beings, we must all do more to protect children’s dreams, because the future doesn’t belong to [Read More]
Nov 7, 2019
News, United Nations
2019 UN Female, Award Ceremony, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, Congo, CRSV, ECOSOC, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Luiis Carrilho, Major Seynabou Diouf, Mona Juul, MONUSCO, Police Adviser, Police Officer of the Year, Sea-Welfare, Senegal National Police, sexual violence, Team Leader, UN, UN Headquarters, UN peacekeeping chief, united nations, UNPOL staff
United Nations, New York, USA, November 05, 2019 – UN Female Police Officer of the Year Award 2019 Ceremony today at the UN Headquarters in New York. Photo: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire Major Seynabou Diouf of the Senegal National Police was awarded today as the 2019 United Nations Female Police Officer of the Year. Speaking at the award ceremony today (05 Nov) in New York, UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix congratulated Major Diouf and commended the dedication she performed in combating sexual exploitation and abuse. Lacroix said, “in all our Missions, female officers are a key element in the sensitization and [Read More]