Sep 25, 2015
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Anthony Lake, Assembly of Youth, Ban Ki-moon, Celebrities, celebrity, Children, created by Google, David Beckham, David Beckham UNICEF Fund, digital installation, Executive Director, Football star, Giving Youth a Voice, Google, harnesses mobile technology, Millennium Development Goals, millions of children, personal messages, Politics, quality education, Secretary-General, social media, Sustainable Development Goals, The David Beckham UNICEF Fund, The Sustainable Development Goals, UN, UNICEF, united nations, world leaders
United Nations, September 24 2015 Football star and UNICEF advocate David Beckham called on world leaders on Thursday to put children at the heart of the new 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, during the unveiling of a digital installation attended by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake. As the UN prepares to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals, the Assembly of Youth, a digital installation created for UNICEF by Google, harnesses mobile technology and social media to deliver personal messages from children and young people across the globe directly to world leaders. The messages highlight the challenges [Read More]
Jun 25, 2015
News, United Nations
Armed Conflict, Children, children and armed conflict, children’s right, EuropaNewswire, Guidelines, Leila Zerrougui, Luiz Rampelotto, Politics, Protect Schools and Hospitals, Protecting Education from Attack, right to education, safe one, school safe one, schools, Secretary General, Security Council, Special Representative, SRSG, SRSG Zerrougui, UN, UN Security Council, UNESCO, united nations, universities, War, weapons fire, World Health Organization, Zerrougui
Photos by: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire Geneva, Switzerland, June 24 2015 The full spectrum of parties-to-conflict puts schools and universities to use for a multitude of self-serving purposes, including as barracks, or training grounds – even as weapons stores or defensive positions. While some claim there is a military logic to using schools, Governments and military commanders must also be cognizant of the grave repercussions such commandeering has on children’s right to education. At worst, it can turn the school into an immediate target, thereby endangering the lives of any children in the vicinity, and risking structural damage from weapons fire that [Read More]
