Aug 30, 2019
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Alexandria Villasenor, Climate Action, Climate Action Summit, climate activist, FridaysForFuture, Greta Thunberg, Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces, Sweden, UN, UN Headquarters, united nations, Xiye Bastida
United Nations, New York, USA, August 30, 2019 – Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces (right), President of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly, meets with Greta Thunberg (second from left), climate activist from Sweden, and Alexandria Villasenor (left) and Xiye Bastida, climate activists from the United States. Photo: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire General Assembly President Maria Espinosa welcomed today at the United Nations the climate activist Greta Thunberg who sailed from Europe to New York for two weeks on a zero-emissions sailboat to take part in the Climate Action Summit later in September. Espinosa, together with 16-year-old Thunberg and two other New [Read More]
Sep 16, 2015
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked “those standing in the way of the rights of refugees to stand in their shoes.” Ahead of what is expected to be one of the busiest high-level periods in recent memory at the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noted that sixty million people have left their homes fleeing war and persecution. He said, “I ask those standing in the way of the rights of refugees to stand in their shoes. People facing barrel bombs and brutality in their country will continue to seek life in another. People with few prospects at home will continue [Read More]
