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-10 posts tagged "United Nations"
Oliver Ortega | Tuesday, September 24, 2019
When it comes to climate change, Greta Thunberg doesn’t play. The 16-year-old Swedish activist spent last week chastising lawmakers in Washington for their inaction before leading a global climate strike by millions of young people Friday — after sailing across the Atlantic in August on a zero-emissions yacht, deliberately foregoing air travel because of its
Max Lander | Thursday, March 21, 2019
Rachel Kyte, CEO of nonprofit organization Sustainable Energy for All and special representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and co-chair of UN-Energy sat down with Ted Fox, executive administrator in the Office of the Provost and host of Notre Dame podcast “With a Side of Knowledge,” on Wednesday evening in the McKenna Hall Auditorium for
Gina Twardosz | Wednesday, September 21, 2016
On Tuesday, several Saint Mary’s students and faculty participated in activities celebrating the International Day of Peace. Campus minister Emily Sipos-Butler said the Day of Peace is a way to commemorate and strengthen acts of peace and nonviolence within the community. “It shines a light on the practice of peace and calls all of use to
Katherine Smart | Monday, April 4, 2016
In 2000, Peru’s president was removed from office and an international commission was put together in order to uncover the truth about the violence that had been occurring since 1980 by both terrorist organizations and Peru’s own government. Unfortunately, since strong enough reparations did not follow the report’s release, the Peruvian government and people have
Aidan Lewis | Friday, April 1, 2016
Independent expert on human rights and international solidarity for the United Nations Human Rights Council Virginia Dandan spoke about the importance of international solidarity in a lecture Thursday afternoon sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Dandan said the goal of international solidarity is to allow local issues to be solved on an international
Kelly McGarry | Monday, August 31, 2015
On August 26, Burger King put out a very flashy and public proposal to McDonald’s. BK invited McDonald’s to “create something special — something that gets the world talking about Peace Day.” That creation: The McWhopper. BK launched an entire website to present their master plan of a Big Mac/Whopper hybrid. The website is complete with
Clare Kossler | Sunday, March 29, 2015
Students and faculty who attended this year’s Notre Dame Student Peace Conference, an annual, student-run event, gathered Friday in the Hesburgh Center Auditorium to hear the keynote address from Gillian Kitley, the senior officer in the United Nations (UN) Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect. Kitley said despite receiving increased support from the
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, March 19, 2015
Robert Louis Stevenson said, “There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.” The United Nations recognized happiness as a fundamental human right in 2012, establishing the annual International Day of Happiness on March 20. Acknowledging “the importance of happiness and well-being as universal goals and aspirations in the lives
Catherine Owers | Tuesday, September 16, 2014
On Thursday, the citizens of Scotland will decide by referendum if they want to be independent from the United Kingdom. According to the BBC, 4.2 million people have registered to vote, which is 97 percent of eligible Scottish voters. Professor Tanisha Fazal, associate professor of political science and peace studies, said Scotland has several reasons to
Tori Roeck | Wednesday, February 19, 2014
In a talk Tuesday at the Hesburgh Center for International Studies, Frances Stewart, professor emeritus of development economics at the University of Oxford, described the history of human development from the 1950s onward. Thinkers from developed countries created the concept of foreign aid in the 1950s, and this aid promoted industrialization and an increase in