The power of visualization choices: Different images of patterns in space

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Britta Ricker ◽  
Menno-Jan Kraak ◽  
Yuri Engelhardt
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Design Decision ◽  
Inequality Index ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Decision Points ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Made In

Maps are representations of the world. They offer summaries or simplifications of data that are collected, attempt to reveal unknowns, to simplify and communicate complex spatial phenomena. Numerous decisions are made in the process of creating a map. Seemingly inconsequential variations of cartographic design decisions offer many ways to illustrate this process. We use an open dataset related to the United Nations Gender Inequality Index to demonstrate design decision points and their output. As governments are increasingly making data open to the public, and map-making tools and software are now more accessible online, these considerations are important both for those making and reading maps online.

The Future of Human Rights: A View from the United Nations

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Gilmour
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The Other ◽  
World Summit ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Peace And Development ◽  
Made In

Ever since the Charter of the United Nations was signed in 1945, human rights have constituted one of its three pillars, along with peace and development. As noted in a dictum coined during the World Summit of 2005: “There can be no peace without development, no development without peace, and neither without respect for human rights.” But while progress has been made in all three domains, it is with respect to human rights that the organization's performance has experienced some of its greatest shortcomings. Not coincidentally, the human rights pillar receives only a fraction of the resources enjoyed by the other two—a mere 3 percent of the general budget.

The United Nations Gender Inequality Index

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Isis Gutiérrez-Martínez ◽  
Samina M. Saifuddin ◽  
Rana Haq
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Inequality Index ◽  
The United Nations

“Imagined Territory: The Republic of China’s 1955 Veto of Mongolian Membership in the United Nations”

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-295
Author(s):  
Keith Allan Clark II
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Republic

In 1955, Jiang Tingfu, representing the Republic of China (roc), vetoed Mongolia’s entry into the United Nations. In the 26 years the roc represented China in the United Nations, it only cast this one veto. The roc’s veto was a contentious move because Taipei had recognized Mongolia as a sovereign state in 1946. A majority of the world body, including the United States, favored Mongolia’s admission as part of a deal to end the international organization’s deadlocked-admissions problem. The roc’s veto placed it not only in opposition to the United Nations but also its primary benefactor. This article describes the public and private discourse surrounding this event to analyze how roc representatives portrayed the veto and what they thought Mongolian admission to the United Nations represented. It also examines international reactions to Taipei’s claims and veto. It argues that in 1955 Mongolia became a synecdoche for all of China that Taipei claimed to represent, and therefore roc representatives could not acknowledge it as a sovereign state.

Women and men in the United Nations: A corpus analysis of General Debate addresses

2021 ◽  
pp. 095792652199214
Author(s):  
Nicole Brun-Mercer
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Inclusive Language ◽  
The World ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations

The United Nations (UN) has demonstrated a commitment to women’s empowerment over seven decades of work. Yet gender inequality pervades in countries around the world and even within the UN. This corpus analysis investigated collocates of woman(’s), women(’s), man(’s) and men(’s) in 193 UN General Assembly General Debate addresses in fall 2015 to examine gender representation by international decision-makers. The analysis revealed that the plural women occurred more frequently than men and primarily in discussions on gender equality and violence. In contrast, the singular man was identified more frequently than woman, in generic use (e.g. mankind) and in references to eminent male leaders. Despite UN dedication to gender equality and linguistic guidelines promoting gender-inclusive language, these General Debate addresses do not conceptualise women and men equally, more frequently referring to women as a group in need of protection and support and to men as political figures and other distinguished individuals.

scholarly journals The IAU in the 21st Century

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (S349) ◽  
pp. 58-60
Author(s):  
Robert Williams
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Year 2000

AbstractBeginning in year 2000 the IAU undertook a number of initiatives that changed the Union from being primarily an inward-focused organization whose emphasis was the world of professional astronomy, to being more outward looking in engaging with the public. These initiatives included proposing to the United Nations and then leading the International Year of Astronomy IYA 2009, and the formulation of a Strategic Plan that included creation of the Office of Astronomy for Development. Additional programs are being undertaken by the Union that continue to broaden IAU engagement with the public.

scholarly journals نفرت پر مبنی جرائم کے اسباب اور ان کا تدارک خطبہ حجۃ الوداع اور اقوام متحدہ کے منشور کی روشنی میں

Al-Duhaa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (02) ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
Anwar Ali ◽  
Abdurahman Khan ◽  
Shahid Amin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Free World ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Made In

This research is to explore causes and preventions of different hatred based crimes in the light of Khutba Hajja tul Wida and the Universal Charter of the United Nations for human rights. The farewell sermon of the Holy Prophet at Arafat was during His last hajj (Pilgrimage) entitled as “Khutba Hajja-tul-Wida”. This address was full of advices and instructions not only for the audiences but for the whole humanity. This address is the first comprehensive charter of internationalization in the history of the human. Some of the crimes and their causes like injustice, racism, favoritism, caste and family differences, revenge, rebellion, interest based economy, corruption, killing, terrorism are common in all the countries of the world. This study elaborates that these crimes is the consequences of imbalance in rights and responsibilities. All of us want to acquire our rights but very few people are willing to fulfil their responsibility and duty. The voice and slogans for human rights are raised everywhere around the world but almost these people violate the laws enacted for human rights themselves. Charter of United Nations also stress on the fulfilment of the human rights but till now it could not control the violence, human right violations, terrorism, killing and other crimes all over the world. Therefore all the laws for a crime-free world should be made in the light of Khutba Hajja-tul-Wida to avoid all types of flaw. As we know that all the sayings of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W) are revealed by Allah Subhana’hu wa’tala.

Nightmare and Noble Dream: The 1993 World Conference on Human Rights

1994 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-62
Author(s):  
Susan Marks
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
World Conference ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

The World Conference on Human Rights, which took place in Vienna in June 1993, was convened by the United Nations with three principal aims. The Conference was to evaluate progress made in the field of human rights in the period since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948; to consider the relationship between human rights and other priority concerns of the world community, such as development and democratisation; and to examine ways of strengthening the protection afforded human rights and improving the United Nations' human rights programme. An earlier UN conference on human rights had been held in Teheran in 1968 and the General Assembly decided that, 25 years later, reconsideration was appropriate. This decision, taken in 1989, seemed vindicated as events following the fall of the Berlin Wall opened up new opportunities, as well as new dangers.

Secretariat

1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-622
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
The Public ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Main Instrument ◽  
Realistic Appraisal

Annual Report of the Secretary-General: Speaking on the development of public understanding during the year under review, the Secretary-General ex-pressed his conviction that public understanding of the United Nations as an institution for world peace and progress had continued to grow in most areas of the world. Although the United Nations might, however, be almost universally regarded as “the main hope for peace in the long run”, the Secretary-General felt that there was then a general tendency to consider that the organization was not the “sole or main instrument for peace”. He remarked on the wide areas of misunderstanding and the lack of knowledge about the United Nations and its work which persisted in most parts of the world, but he coupled this view with the impression of notable progress during the previous year toward a more realistic appraisal of the organization's potentialities for the solution of basic problems. The Secretary-General pointed out also that, as in previous years, the course of events had had a direct bearing on prevailing public opinion and had caused fluctuations in both positive and negative directions. The situation in Korea during the past year had exerted particularly strong influence on the attitude of the public toward the United Nations.

Secretariat

1951 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 583-583
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Peaceful Settlement ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Many ◽  
Made In

During March and April, Secretary-General Lie visited France, Yugoslavia, Greece, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Israel. The trip was made in accordance with his custom of visiting Member countries upon their invitation. His journey had no special political significance “except to advance the cause of the United Nations as the best hope for the peaceful settlement of the many conflicts that now divide the world so dangerously.”

Interview with Achim Steiner

2010 ◽  
Vol 92 (879) ◽  
pp. 545-555
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
United Nations Environment Programme ◽  
Director General ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
United Nations System

Achim Steiner is United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Effective as of 1 March 2009, Mr Steiner was also appointed Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON). Before joining UNEP, he served as Director-General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) from 2001 to 2006. His professional career has included assignments with governmental, non-governmental, and international organizations in various parts of the world. In Washington, where he had previously been Senior Policy Advisor of IUCN's Global Policy Unit, he spearheaded the development of new partnerships between the environmental community, the World Bank, and the United Nations system. In South-East Asia he worked as Chief Technical Advisor on a programme for sustainable management of Mekong River watersheds and community-based natural resources management. In 1998 he was appointed Secretary-General of the World Commission on Dams, based in South Africa, where he directed a worldwide programme of work to bring together the public sector, civil society, and the private sector in a global policy-making process on dams and development.

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