Sentences with phrase «un offices»

FIABCI enjoys special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and regularly address real estate issues at UN offices around the world.

Most UN offices are in places where the bureaucrats can luxuriate in posh circumstances and take advantage of their salaries.

Meanwhile, according to CatholicCulture.org Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See's permanent representative to UN offices based in Geneva, deplored the killing of civilians in the Gaza - Israel conflict and called for an immediate ceasefire.

Even after 15 years of occupation, opium cultivation in the country has risen, going up 10 % in 2016, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.

Mexico's representative to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Mazzitelli, told AFP that Mexico had destroyed 20,000 hectares of poppies between 2014 and 2015, which indicated the area under cultivation had increased.

Nearly two million people in the city have had no access to running water since July 31, according to the the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, when bombing cut power to the pumps.

2016 alone saw a 52 % increase in the area under coca cultivation, rising to 360,774 acres from 237,221 acres in 2015, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.

Also present were the Presidents of the ECOWAS commission and also the Special Representatives of the United Nations Secretary General who happens to be the head of the UN office for West Africa and the Sahel.

Established in 1948, the UN Information Centre in Moscow is the oldest UN office in the country.

In Khartoum, as crowds chanted «with our souls, with our blood we die for Bashir», a statement was delivered to the capital's UN office.

According to the latest figures from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, those in need of assistance include 3.2 million people in Ethiopia, 3.5 million in Kenya, 2.5 million in Somalia, 600,000 in north - east Uganda and 120,000 in Djibouti (see map).

Watch a video produced by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on their visit to Detroit, Michigan in 2011:

Mr. Nabi Avci, minister of culture and tourism, Turkey; Mr. Aldo Lale - Demoz, deputy executive director and director of the division for operations, UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); Ms. Isabel Hill, director, national travel and tourism office, United States Department of Commerce; H.E..

The man who heads the UN office overseeing these climate conferences, Yvo de Boer, left the plenary platform in tears after a severe — many thought misguided — scolding from China about procedural issues.

The solution doesn't need massive new command and control regulations run out of some UN office.

Speaking via videoconference from Niger, the Special Representative of the Secretary - General for West Africa and Head of the UN Office for West Africa (UNOWA), Mohamed Ibn Chambas, said that he had just met President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger as part of a tour of Sahelian countries on the frontline of humanity's struggle against climate change.

Socio (s): UNCTAD, UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction has started what it calls a «historic effort» to collect a comprehensive set of data on losses caused by natural disasters.

A new study from the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) demonstrates that 90 % of all disasters are now weather - related.

A recent study by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction reported that of the 164,000 who perished when the thermometer dropped or climbed to catastrophic levels, in the last 20 years, 148,000 died during heatwaves, and 90 % of these deaths were in Europe.

Now, organizations working in developing countries can apply for support from the United Nations QIAO Plan on Climate Change and Nature Conservation as part of a partnership between the UN Office for South - South Cooperation (UNOSSC) and the Beijing Qiaonyu Foundation.

It's difficult to put an exact value on the clandestine trade in timber and animals, but estimates from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the UN Environmental Programme and INTERPOL range from $ 70 to $ 213 billion U.S. dollars per year.

Jan Egeland, head of UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, has proclaimed that the situations in Congo and Uganda have each exceeded Darfur as humanitarian crises, but the world has not paid it equal attention, even though he noted there is even more of an opportunity to save lives in these other situations.

The UN Office of Legal Affairs has digitized all of the UN's legal publications back to the first volumes.

Integrated Regional Information Networks (UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)

In preparing its delegation for the meetings, the campaign has enjoyed excellent cooperation with the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs in Geneva and its CCW support unit.

Organization of the five - day Group of Governmental Experts is the responsibility its chair Ambassador Amandeep Singh Gill of India, with the support of the Geneva office of the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs and particularly the CCW implementation support unit.

strengthening family skills to prevent drug abuse, a report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime

A further development is the recent Draft Guidelines on Poverty Alleviation developed jointly by UNDP and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Not exact matches

The tiny State of Eritrea was the subject of a recent scathing report by the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

President George W. Bush (R) and Ambassador to the UN John Bolton (L) meet in the Oval Office of the White House December 4, 2006 in Washington, DC.

Paulo, one of our machine learning engineers, has quipped, «the office sometimes feels like a Model UN conference!»

IOM is working with partners, including the Government of Libya, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the African Union, the European Union, and countries of origin, to forge an agreement to implement a programme to empty those detention centres.

Also on Wednesday ISIS executed 190 former Iraqi security forces for refusing to join them, in the Al Ghazlani base near Mosul,» said Ravina Shamdasani from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The UN human rights office said in a statement on Wednesday that at least 346 people had been killed in eastern Ghouta since the Syrian government and its allies escalated their offensive on the region on 4th February.

The UN has urged Russian armies supporting President Bashar al - Assad's attacks on Syria to allow safe passage and ensure their safety in what the United Nations human rights office termed «a complete meltdown of humanity.»

Cristina Grandi, coordinator of the Rome Office, makes use of her extensive contacts within UN agencies to head up our international food security campaign work.

The Rome Office enables direct access to key United Nations (UN) agencies like FAO (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN) and IFAD (the International Fund for Agricultural Development).

Its Creating Shared Value reports are posted on the Global Compact site (UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL COMPACT OFFICE, 2010b) and its 2007 report was even launched at a joint UN Global Compact / Nestlé event, implying official endorsement of the Nestlé reports (NESTLÉ, 2008).

Although the UN Global Compact Office has powers to exclude companies, it stated: «Of course, abuses of the 10 Principles do occur; however we believe that such abuses only indicate that it is important for the company to remain in the Compact and learn from its mistakes.»

The Swiss NCP first indicated that it was unwilling to receive a copy of the complaint sent to the UN Global Compact Office and requested that the breaches of human rights and other instruments be related to the Guidelines.

The UN Global Compact (UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL COMPACT OFFICE, 2010a) is a voluntary initiative promoting 10 principles to corporations.

Baby Milk Action informed the UN Global Compact Office that, while it would continue to copy the Office into its ongoing «dialogue» with Nestlé and encourage the Office to exclude Nestlé, the correspondence with the Office had demonstrated that it was incapable or unwilling to take any action to stop the violations and that far from improving corporate behaviour it was, in this instance at least, complicit in allowing violations to continue by providing legitimacy to misleading reports — which it refused to evaluate — and public relations cover.

Accordingly on 11 June 2009 the UK civil society organisation Baby Milk Action submitted a complaint alleging that the reports posted on the UN Global Compact Office site and launched at the joint event were misleading and that Nestlé was, in truth, responsible for egregious violations of the Global Compact Principles.

Baby Milk Action asked the UN Global Compact Office to review the evidence submitted and its communications with Nestlé as called for under the Integrity Measures, with a view to excluding Nestlé.

The author claims that ITSSD's analyses were an effort to inject «rational discourse into the heated emotional and ideological debate that Baby Milk Action has fomented, with the help of local UN agency offices, to frighten the public into believing what the organization and the UN wishes them to believe.»

We have attempted to involve the UN Global Compact Office in applying its Integrity Measures for these and other violations of the Global Compact principles, but it refuses to do so — but then Nestlé is one of its patron sponsors.

A coalition of campaigning organisations, known as the Nestlé Critics, submitted a report to the UN Global Compact Office regarding the last Creating Shared Value report in 2009 as this voluntary corporate responsibility initiative posts the reports on its website and has even taken part in joint events with Nestlé.

The company in question has refused to take corrective action and there is nothing the UN Global Compact Office nor the relevant National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines seem able to do to compel them to do so.

The UN Human Rights Office has released a short film that raises awareness of intersex individuals and it's beyond moving.