Some things to consider on United Nations Day 2024…
United Nations Day is an annual commemorative day, reflecting the official creation of the United Nations on 24 October 1945.
The United Nations was founded after the Second World War by 51 countries and is the world’s largest international organization. It works to promote peace and security, human rights, sustainable development and other important global issues.
The UN is significant in the current world for several reasons: United Nations
Did you know? The United Nations has 17 Sustainable Development Goals: UN Common Agenda SDGs
Having ‘voice’ at the UN is important.
UNANIMA International brings the voices of the grassroots and those with lived experience to the UN.
UNANIMA represents 23 congregations of Women Religious: UNANIMA Participants
UNANIMA’s most recent update: Newsletter Oct 2024
In 2023, António Guterres, the current Secretary-General of the United Nations, wrote this letter: A letter to my granddaughter’s granddaughter
The United Nations is a reflection of the world as it is – and an aspiration of the world we know it can be.
It is our responsibility to help build that world of peace, sustainable development and human rights for all.
We can do it. The Charter of the United Nations – which entered into force 79 years ago today – points the way.
Above all, it is rooted in a spirit of determination to heal divisions, repair relations, and build peace.
To expand opportunities, and leave no one behind.
To ensure justice, equality and empowerment
for women and girls.
To provide life-saving relief to those in need.
And to be flexible enough to address challenges that did not even exist when the UN was born – from the existential climate crisis
to the perils and promise of artificial intelligence.
The United Nations is guided by timeless values and principles, but it must never be frozen in time.
That is why we must always keep strengthening ways of working and applying a 21st century lens to all we do.
On this United Nations Day, let us commit with hope and determination
to build the better world of our aspirations.
Let us commit to a future that lives up to the name of our indispensable organization.
We are a divided world.
We can and must be united nations.
– Source: UN
“…we are challenged to listen and respond to the cry of all life pleading,
“Am I not your neighbour?’”
– Invitation and Call, Congregational Forum 2022