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Faith in Action: Advancing Climate Justice and Peace in 2025
As we enter 2025, the United Nations has set the stage for a transformative year, highlighting themes that call for global unity and action: glaciers’ preservation, peace, quantum science and […]
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2025 International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation
Glaciers are crucial for regulating the global climate and providing freshwater, essential for billions of people. However, due to climate change, driven mainly by human activities since the 1800s, these […]
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International Day of Clean Energy
The International Day of Clean Energy is a call to raise awareness and mobilize action for a just and inclusive transition to clean energy for the benefit of people and […]
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UNCCD COP 16
The 16th session of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP16) is currently taking place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 2nd-13th December. This conference brings together 197 parties […]
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International Human Solidarity Day
The Sustainable Development Agenda is centred on people & planet, underpinned by human rights and supported by a global partnership determined to lift people out of poverty, hunger and disease. […]
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World Interfaith Harmony Week
World Interfaith Harmony Week is an annual event observed during the first week of February, since the General Assembly designation in 2010. The General Assembly pointed out that mutual understanding […]
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Human Rights and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
A panel discussion with NIHRC Chief Commissioner Alyson Kilpatrick and Professor Colin Harvey on human rights and the UN SDGs
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World Children’s Day
World Children’s Day was first established in 1954 as Universal Children’s Day and is celebrated on 20 November each year to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving […]
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Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare
Adopted in 1993, the Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force on 29 April 1997. It determined, “for the sake of all mankind, to exclude completely the possibility of the use […]
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International Week of Science and Peace
The annual observance of the International Week of Science and Peace is making an important contribution to the promotion of peace. The Week encourages greater academic exchanges on a subject […]