Apr 24, 2016
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Actor, Ban Ki-moon, Forest Whitaker, General Assembly, Luiz Rampelotto, Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire, Oscar-winning, Peace, PGA, Politics, SDG advocates by Secretary General, SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals, UN, UNESCO special, united nations, Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative, WPDI
United Nations, New York, USA, April 21 2016 – Oscar-winning actor and UNESCO special envoy for peace Forest Whitaker holds a press conference today at the UN Headquarters in New York on the Sustainable Development Goals meetings that is taking place at the UN General Assembly. By Britta Schmitz UNITED NATIONS, April 24 2016 – Actor Forest Whitaker held a press conference at the UN in New York, urging world leaders to keep their promise of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ensuring that the Global Goals reach everyone. “What we have seen is that throughout history and throughout [Read More]
Nov 7, 2015
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Statement delivered on November 5, 2015 by the Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations, Ambassador Sebastiano Cardi, at the Book Launch “Moving away from death penalty – II edition” Mr. Secretary-General, excellencies, ladies and gentleman, There are at least two main reasons why during the last years Italy has been at the side of OHCHR in supporting its work on the death penalty. And why we are today extremely glad to mark the achievement of one of the results of our cooperation. First, because we strongly value the engagement of OHCHR, under the SG’s resolute guidance as we all [Read More]
