Part of Blog Series: Global Issues, Local Solutions – Calgary Organizations Spotlight The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations focuses on global issues but aims to solve them through the local solutions available in each and every community. With this perspective in mind, we at United Nations Associations Read more…
By: Josephine Mary In a recent conversation with an ESG professional, I took a pause and reflected on my education choices which I took based on the knowledge and resources I had. After 10 years, a part of me wondered about the massive education opportunities my fellow speaker had known Read more…
We’d like to notify our members and the public that the 2023 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of UNAC-Calgary will be held on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM (MT). Location: BMO Community Room | Central Public Library, 800 3ST SE, Calgary, AB T2G 2E7 This event aims Read more…
Peaceful Sustainability or ‘Green’ Weapons? By: Angelina Patoka Past November the United Nations commemorated the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. The long winded title is self-explanatory, what does it have to do with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? The importance thereof Read more…
Reducing mental health stigma with Calgary Distress Centre By: Jess Williamson World Mental Health Day is on October 10, which is timely with back to school pressures, post-pandemic stress and uncertainty about the future, but Calgary’s 24 hour support crisis intervention agency, Distress Centre Calgary (DCC) is here to help. Read more…
Healthy Ageing in Post-Ageist 2022 and Beyond By: Angelina Patoka It is with a heavy heart that today we commemorate the World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Unfortunately, this continues to be an underreported widespread issue worldwide and numerous findings suggest it could get worse. Elder abuse is most commonly Read more…
“Immoral War, Immoral Peace?” By: Angelina Patoka When Russia invaded Ukraine this February, some lamented the inevitability thereof as part of a ‘great’ political ‘game’ in line with the re-emergence of great power politics amid an anticipated shift in the political polarity of the world. Ukraine now stands united, its Read more…
Mission: WASH enable By: Rida Rehmani The COVID-19 pandemic closed many physical doors, but it enabled a world of possibilities for the training team at the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST). A cycle of poverty and disease traps millions of people- mostly in rural and developing areas Read more…
Groundwater: Making visible what is hidden By: Leonardo Conde Fernandez From the world’s least developed countries like the South of Chad, to the many First Nations communities in Canada, people are suffering from the global problem of access to drinkable water. On March 22, the United Nations observes ‘World Water Read more…
Celebrating Womanhood By: Zara Obaa The long road to gender equality International Women’s Day (IWD) to celebrates and honours women the world over for their achievements and contributions to society socially, culturally, economically, and politically. Beginning as a labor movement, IWD has progressed to an internationally acknowledged celebration that happens Read more…