UN Day

UN DaypatwariWed, 10/20/2021 - 20:30The events over the past year have shown that the world ’s nations must act together as our future is a shared one. What happens in one country is not limited to within its borders.  Multiple vaccines for COVID-19 were developed in record time, but who has access shows the stark inequalities between rich and poor. We cannot be  safe nor prosper if a deadly disease is allowed to rage. Climate change does not discriminate as extreme weather events kill citizens in developed and developing countries alike. Conflict and violence force people to flee homelands to both neighbours next door and far-away lands. This UN Day, marking the day theUN Charter, signed in June 1945 and entered into force in October, let us remember our purpose: “To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.” Among those common ends: “To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respec t for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.”Before us lay challenges like never before. But in the past, the world has encountered challenge upon challenge it had never witnessed before until it did – nuclear arms proliferation, disease, hunger – and rose to meet them. Everyone is entitled to human rights, dignity, worth and equal rights....

Source: UNFPA News - October 21, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: patwari Source Type: news