Tag: women

Burkina Faso’s Alizeta Kinda receives UN Women Police Award 2022

Chief Warrant Officer Alizeta Kabore Kinda (in the pic) of Burkina Faso, who currently serves in the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), has been awarded the 2022 United Nations Woman Police Officer Award with a documentary presentation on her works in a UNCOPS ceremony co-sponsored by Canada and Norway held on Wednesday afternoon in the United Nations as it was introduced in 2011 to recognize the exceptional contributions of women police officers to UN peace operations and to promote women’s empowerment. 

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Government, to three women for the main tasks

TORONTO – Nineteen ministers and nineteen ministers, with the three most important ministries entrusted to three women. The new federal government led by Justin Trudeau – after those resulting from the electoral victories of 2015 and 2019 – takes on a very specific connotation, where there is a perfect equal balance of gender that becomes the predominant element compared to other factors that have historically characterized the process of formation of the executive in Canada, such as geographical origin or ethnic origin.  (more…)

“Women in space”, lo Spazio in scena a Osimo con collegamenti da Canada, Uk e Usa. Apre Piero Angela

OSIMO (Ancona) – L’altra metà del cielo. Di più. Dello spazio. Sono loro, le donne, le protagoniste della World Space Week 2021, che per quest’anno ha scelto il tema “Women in space”. L’iniziativa, indetta dall’ONU per celebrare il contributo delle tecnologie e delle scienze spaziali al miglioramento della condizione umana, vede ogni anno migliaia di appuntamenti in tutto il mondo.  (more…)