On this 25th anniversary of World Television Day, we celebrate a truth that holds around the globe: TV has evolved to become much more than it used to be. TV is now available at all times, at home and on the go, across all screens – large or small – live or streamed; offering both collective and feel-like-me experiences. TV is also measurable, connected, personalised and targetable.
World Television Day is not so much a celebration of the tool, but rather the philosophy which it represents. Television represents a symbol for communication and globalization in the contemporary world.
Join the Conference on the Future of Television
08 - 11 Nov 2021.
New York, USA
"Conference focus on new advertising platforms, TVtech, innovations"
“FOR EVERY CHILD A LEGAL IDENTITY, FOR EVERY CHILD ACCESS TO JUSTICE”. The African Union, jointly with UNICEF, have launched the No Name Campaign: For Every Child a Legal Identity, For Every Child Access to Justice, identifies birth registration as a key element for the access to child friendly justice.
Celebrate children's rights at the world's biggest cultural gathering!
Music, dance, poetry and more on Expo's central stage: - Opening Performances - Emirates Youth Symphony Orchestra & Circus Zambia - UAE's Commitment to the Future - HE Hessa bint Essa - Visions for the Future: Performances from Around the World – Abby Chams, Gitanjali Rao, Emirates - Youth Symphony Orchestra ft. Elli Choi, Vazquez Sounds, Expo Mascots - Announcement – Ted Chaiban, HE Reem Abdulla Al Falasi - Closing Remarks - HE Reem Abdulla Al Falasi - Musical Performance - YARA
Organized by UNICEF in partnership with Expo 2020 Dubai and the UAE Ministry of Community Development.
The COVID-19 crisis continues to deeply affect economies and societies everywhere.
At the same time, investment in pandemic recovery is a generational opportunity for bold transformation and accelerated progress towards realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, eradicating poverty, reducing inequalities and building climate resilience.
Prospects for the prosperity of the African continent are anchored in expanding opportunities for women and girls, investing in young people, advancing agro-industrial transformation and green industrialization through technology transfer, innovation and partnerships, and full implementation of the Continental Free Trade Agreement.
Inclusive and sustainable industrial development and economic diversification promote growth and development through self-reliance and reduce dependence in a globalized economy. It is especially crucial in a world where solidarity is in short supply and global challenges loom large – from vaccine inequity to the digital divide.
On Africa Industrialization Day, I reaffirm the commitment of the United Nations to work with the leaders and people of Africa in making inclusive and sustainable industrialization an effective pathway to a prosperous and peaceful continent.
The African Union Summit on Industrialization and Economic Diversification aims to highlight Africa’s renewed determination and commitment to Industrialization as one of the central pillars in attaining the continent’s economic growth and development goals as articulated in Agenda 2063 and Agenda 2030. In light of the key and strategic interdependences between Industrialisation and the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA), the Summit aims to rally desired political momentum, resources, partnerships and alliances towards an Africa-Industrialisation drive. This is along the continent’s resolve to drive structural transformation, built around leveraging Africa’s rich and diverse natural resources while at the same time embracing current advances in technologies, continental and global geo socio-political trends and emergence of tradeable services. The Summit is anticipated to unlock the evolution of a vibrant pan-African enterprise and capital base that will unleash an inclusive and sustainable industrialisation pathway that carries along with the participation of all economic agents, including SMEs, youth, and women in the generation of national wealth and creation of jobs as well as expansion of entrepreneurship opportunities for Africa’s populations. The impacts of the novel coronavirus pandemic continue to drive the urgent and imperative need for bold actions to drive transformative change in key economic pillars such as Industrialisation.
The specific objectives of the African Industrialization and Economic Diversification Summit are: - Decide on a renewed continental policy framework on Africa’s industrialisation aimed at rallying the continent’s resolve and commitment to a bold set of policy and investment actions to accelerate the continent’s industrialisation drive - Reinforce the development of regional industrial value chains to clearly articulate Africa’s quest to industrialize, create jobs and entrepreneurship opportunities for Africa’s MSMEs, youth and women within the context of current and emerging continental and global socio-economic trends. - Provide high-level political support to drive a globally competitive Africa-Industrialisation programme through public-private alliances, at the national, regional, continental level, and aligned global policy coherence, coordination and linkages, investment financing. This should take full cognizance of current and emerging key cross-sector needs including energy and water, education and training, Science-Technology and Innovation, climate change, environmental resilience and crisis management.
Follow the conversation with the hashtags #AfricaIndustrialisation or #AIW2021
Economic diversification is the process of shifting an economy away from a single income source toward multiple sources from a growing range of sectors and markets. Traditionally, it has been applied as a strategy to encourage positive economic growth and development.
Sustainable and Inclusive Industrialization
Over the past few years, the international community has made a quantum leap in advancing new approaches to accelerate progress and pave the way for a more ambitious, inclusive and universal development framework beyond 2015. While industrialization was not factored into the Millennium Development Goals framework, inclusive and sustainable industrialization now features strongly in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and, by 2030, significantly raise industry's share of employment and gross domestic product.
The main objective of the 12th Africa Private Sector Forum is to explore feasible ways and means of strengthening African private sector’s capacity to respond to disrupted markets and ensure post COVID 19 economic resilience and steady recovery driven by strong, vibrant and dynamic Private Sector and be able to continue driving Africa’s transformational Agenda 2063 aspirations.
Specific Objectives of the Forum - To dialogue and explore ways of creating a conducive business environment and supportive - entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem for Africa’s Private sector. Ameliorate governance in the public contract procurement value chain amongst AU countries to enhance competitiveness and to impose a quota for private sector participation in big public contract tender processes in Africa. - To facilitate the engagement of market actors in recovery planning. It is important for the voice of private sector employers and workers to be heard when designing, implementing and monitoring an economic recovery. This requires new innovative approaches that harness the potential of new technologies and digital platforms to enhance publicprivate dialogue for socio-economic transformation. To provide a platform for a Public-Private sector dialogue on regulations and promotion of E-Commerce in order to facilitate better access to markets and digital trading platforms while removing or significantly reducing the need for physical travels and contacts. To further discussions on ways to make it easier for the African Private Sector to access relevant financial services. Given that the closing of the greater part of global economy has created a financial crisis, among other crises in many countries, policymakers should consider how financial sector reforms can be used to increase liquidity for Business financing, while improving mechanisms that extend online payments. - To discuss measures on how Africa’s Private Sector can be actively engaged in the economic recovery of African Countries by improving public procurement policies and procedures that enhance MSME active participation in the tendering process. - To explore means to improve trade and supply chains in which markets are open and competition is maintained hence creating opportunities that enable Africa’s Private Sector to operate in national and global supply chains, improve their competitiveness and enabled to access new global markets to increase Intra Africa Trade. - To call for a commitment to boost agricultural production and productivity levels through the scaling up of agro-technologies, investing in access to affordable quality seeds and fertilizers, markets through value chain improvements, and promoting agricultural research and development among others. - To mobilize for critical resources required to invest in Smart & Sustainable Energy: Smart oil and gas infrastructure. - To highlight the importance of tourism as a key factor in economic transformation and call for increased investment in the sector. This also calls for collaborative efforts to strengthen the capacity of African private sector and integrate them in the tourism value chain. - To create awareness about the presence of an active “African Union Investment Promotion Network Website” that is mainly intended among others to promote the exchange of information and facilitate interactions, between all private sectors within Africa and across the globe.
By celebrating World Philosophy Day each year, on the third Thursday of November, UNESCO underlines the enduring value of philosophy for the development of human thought, for each culture and for each individual.
For the observance of the International Day for Tolerance 2021, UNESCO calls upon everybody to celebrate diversity and the inalienable right to difference, which gives depth to our societies and establishes peace in the minds of men and women.
In his Open Letter to the Youth, Amadou Hampâté Bâ called on humanity to work towards mutual understanding by every means possible, so that "our differences, rather than separating us, become complementary and a source of mutual enrichment".For 75 years now, our Organization has been pursuing this ambition by harnessing the common goods of humanity that are education, science, culture and information to build peace in the minds of men and women. And this International Day is an opportunity to stress the topicality of our shared commitment to defending and promoting tolerance and mutual understanding. Almost two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fault lines that divide and disfigure our societies are still pushing us apart and exacerbating distrust. It is therefore necessary to reaffirm the basic values of humankind, which we uphold in both theory and practice.This is particularly true of the work that we are doing to make education a place where students, as citizens of tomorrow's world, learn empathy, the nature of dialogue and respect for others and oppose hatred and intolerance in both form and substance.This work must reach far beyond the classroom to encompass all spheres of society. Our Organization thus works day to day to defend and promote cultural and linguistic diversity and diversity of knowledge, especially indigenous knowledge, so that all these outlooks and ways of seeing the world can open up new vistas for humankind through dialogue and exchange.As we can read in the Declaration of Principles on Tolerance signed on 16 November 1995 by the Member States of UNESCO, "Tolerance is harmony in difference."On this International Day for Tolerance, UNESCO calls upon everybody to celebrate diversity and the inalienable right to difference, which gives depth to our societies and establishes peace in the minds of men and women.
World Diabetes Day provides an opportunity to raise awareness of diabetes as a global public health issue and what needs to be done, collectively and individually, for better prevention, diagnosis and management of the condition.
This year’s World Diabetes Day is taking place at the end of a year which has been intensive in terms of global advocacy for diabetes. WHO and partners have used the opportunity of the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin to highlight the huge gap between the people who need access to insulin to control their diabetes, as well as essential technologies such as blood glucose meters and test strips, and those who actually have access.
The Day also comes at a time when the world continues to live through the COVID-19 pandemic, which has not only resulted in a high proportion of people with diabetes among hospitalized patients with severe manifestations of COVID-19 and among those who have succumbed to the virus, but has also led to severe disruption of diabetes services.
In the lead-up to and on 14 November, WHO will highlight not only the challenges, but more importantly the solutions, to scaling-up access to diabetes medicines and care.
How you can get involved - Pledge your support for greater access to diabetes care by supporting our online petition. Link available soon. - Engage a local or national policy-maker to ensure that all people with diabetes have access to the care they need. - Organise a ‘Learn about diabetes’ event in schools. - Organise or participate in a local diabetes awareness walk. - Light up a local landmark, your home or workplace in blue. - Arrange an activity with your work colleagues. Help people learn their potential risk of type 2 diabetes with our online test.
If your region or community is observing physical distancing guidelines due to COVID-19, you can set up online activities.
Exercise in blue
Regular physical activity is an important part of diabetes management and reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes. Whether indoors or outdoors, every step counts to help stay healthy!
Join the Global Diabetes Walk, an initiative created by the World Diabetes Foundation in support of World Diabetes Day. Take to the streets – if circumstances allow – to raise awareness of the impact of diabetes and the importance of physical activity. If outdoor activities in your community are restricted, walk or exercise in your home or workplace and encourage your friends, family and colleagues to join in.Whichever way you exercise make sure to wear blue and show your support for #WorldDiabetesDay and the #IfNotNowWhen campaign.
