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April 23 is English Language Day

English Language Day at the UN is celebrated on 23 April, the date traditionally observed as both the birthday and date of death of William Shakespeare. The Day is the result of a 2010 initiative by the Department of Public Information, establishing language days for each of the Organization’s six official languages, United Nations reports. English, along with French,…

Apr 23, 2023Sorin Ioniţe

International Day of Rural Women

The United Nations (UN) International Day of Rural Women celebrates and honours the role of rural women on October 15 each year. It recognizes rural women’s importance in enhancing agricultural and rural development worldwide. The first International Day of Rural Women was observed on October 15, 2008. This day recognizes the role of rural women,…

Oct 15, 2021Sorin Ioniţe

April 23 is English Language Day

English Language Day at the UN is celebrated on 23 April, the date traditionally observed as both the birthday and date of death of William Shakespeare. The Day is the result of a 2010 initiative by the Department of Public Information, establishing language days for each of the Organization’s six official languages, United Nations reports. English, along with…

Apr 23, 2019Iulian Dumitraşcu

Marrakech Climate Change Conference. Ecumenical Patriarch: 22 years is an unacceptably long period to respond to the environmental crisis

Message By His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew To the UNFCCC COP22 Session Marrakech, Morocco, November 7-18, 2016 The 22nd session of the United Nations conference of the parties on climate change is, in some ways, an occasion for celebration that the world’s nations responded to the urgent call in Paris that we collaboratively address and…

Nov 7, 2016Aurelian Iftimiu