May 31, 2018
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United Nations, New York, USA, May 30, 2018 – Singer and songwriter Emmanuel Kelly tells his story and sings his song at the President of the General Assembly’s Youth Dialogue. (#Youth72) today at the UN Headquarters in New York City. Photo: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire By Kurt Wheelock Emmanuel Kelly, the boy abandoned in a shoe box in Baghdad, Iraq, disabled or differently abled by the impact of chemical weapons in war, spoke and sang on May 30 in the UN’s Economic and Social Council chamber. From his new single, he sang “I will never be alone.” Earlier he told the [Read More]
May 25, 2018
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By Kurt Wheelock On May 30 UN General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak is convening a Youth Dialogue, featuring an Tongan Special Olympian and an up and coming singer who was abandoned as a baby in a shoe box in Iraq. Midday May 30, Lajcak will speak in the UN’s Youth Media Zone, with Leonardo Parraga who founded BogotArt Foundation and Ella Okko of the youth initiative from Finland called “Lennons Peace Ambassador.” Emmanuel Kelly, the boy abandoned in a shoe box in Baghdad, Iraq, disabled or differently abled by the impact of chemical weapons in war, will speak on will [Read More]
Aug 15, 2014
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People of Iraq need security, UN Secretary General By La Shawn Pagán As members of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) continue to terrorize Yazidis and trapping non-ISIS sympathizers in Mount Sinjar, reports of escalating violence in the area has caused the Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon to ask the international community to pay more attention to what’s happening in the Middle Eastern country. “The people of Iraq – all Iraqi people – need security,” the Secretary General told members of the press at the daily noon briefing at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. “Yet the poison [Read More]
