The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its Latin motto,fiat panis,translates to "let there be bread". It was founded on 16 October 1945.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system. It was established by Maurice Strong,its first director,after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in June 1972. Its mandate is to provide leadership,deliver science and develop solutions on a wide range of issues,including climate change,the management of marine and terrestrial ecosystems,and green economic development. The organization also develops international environmental agreements;publishes and promotes environmental science and helps national governments achieve environmental targets.
The National Union of Students of the United Kingdom (NUS) is a confederation of student unions in the United Kingdom. Around 600 student unions are affiliated,accounting for more than 95% of all higher and further education unions in the UK. Although the National Union of Students is the central organisation for all affiliated unions in the UK,there are also the devolved national sub-bodies NUS Scotland in Scotland,NUS Wales in Wales and NUS-USI in Northern Ireland. NUS current President is Larissa Kennedy.
Labour Students was a student organisation within the Labour Party of the United Kingdom. It was a network of affiliated college and university clubs,known as Labour Clubs,who campaigned in their campuses and communities for Labour's values of equality and social justice.
Rania Al-Abdullah is the Queen consort of Jordan as the wife of King Abdullah II.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were eight international development goals for the year 2015 that had been established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000,following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration. These were based on the OECD DAC International Development Goals agreed by Development Ministers in the "Shaping the 21st Century Strategy". The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) succeeded the MDGs in 2016.
Make Poverty History are organizations in a number of countries,which focus on issues relating to 8th Millennium Development Goal such as aid,trade and justice. They generally form a coalition of aid and development agencies which work together to raise awareness of global poverty and achieve policy change by governments. The movement exists or has existed in Australia,Canada,Denmark,Finland,New Zealand,Nigeria,Norway,Romania,South Africa,Ireland,the United Arab Emirates,the United States of America,and the United Kingdom. The various national campaigns are part of the international Global Call to Action Against Poverty campaign.
ONE Campaign is an international,non-partisan,non-profitable,advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease,particularly in Africa by raising public awareness and pressuring political leaders to support policies and programs that are saving lives and improving futures.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS,Tuberculosis and Malaria is an international financing and partnership organization that aims to "attract,leverage and invest additional resources to end the epidemics of HIV/AIDS,tuberculosis and malaria to support attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations". This multistakeholder international organization maintains its secretariat in Geneva,Switzerland. The organization began operations in January 2002. Microsoft founder Bill Gates was one of the first donors to provide seed money for the partnership. From January 2006 it has benefited from certain US Privileges,Exemptions,and Immunities under executive order 13395,which conferred International Organizations Immunities Act status on it.
Gemma Tumelty,is a British Labour Party and Trades Union activist,who was President of the National Union of Students (NUS) from 2006 to 2008. She was the NUS National Secretary from 2005 to 2006,and a member of its National Executive Committee for two years before that.
The United Nations Millennium Campaign (UNMC) was a UN campaign unit that was set up in response to the Millennium Declaration signed by 189 member states. Established in October,2002,the UNMC aimed to increase support to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and seek a coalition of partners for action. The Millennium Campaign targets intergovernmental,government,civil society organizations and media at both global and regional levels.
Wesley Paul William Streeting is a British Labour Party politician who has been serving as the Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since 2021,and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford North since 2015.
Salil Shetty is an Indian human rights activist who was the Secretary General of the human rights organization Amnesty International (2010–2018) till 31 July 2018. His tenure at Amnesty International was marred by significant controversy surrounding the organization's Global Transition Programme and the prevalence of a toxic workplace culture,which was later found to have contributed to the suicide of employee Gaetan Mootoo. Previously,he was the director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign. Before joining the UN,he served as the Chief Executive of ActionAid. In September,2021,Shetty will become the Vice President of Global Programs at the Open Society Foundations.
Tan Chorh Chuan is a Singaporean college administrator and professor who served as president of the National University of Singapore (NUS) between 2008 and 2017. He is currently a professor at the National University of Singapore.
Yale-NUS College is a liberal arts college in Singapore. Established in 2011 as a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore,it was the first liberal arts college in Singapore and one of the first few in Asia. Yale-NUS was the first institution outside New Haven,Connecticut that Yale University had developed in its 300-year history,making Yale the first American Ivy League school to establish a college bearing its name in Asia.
Pericles Lewis is the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of comparative literature at Yale University and the Dean of Yale College.
Rorden Michael E. C. Wilkinson FAcSS FRSA is a British academic and author. He is Professor of International Political Economy and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and the Student Experience at the University of New South Wales,Sydney,Australia. He was Professor of Global Political Economy and Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Innovation at the University of Sussex,and a Fellow of the UK Trade Policy Observatory;and Professor of International Political Economy in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester (1997–2014) and Research Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute. Between 1995 and 1997 he was Assistant Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Auckland,New Zealand. He has been a visiting professor at Brown University,Wellesley College,and the Australian National University.
Elvis Afriyie Ankrah is a Ghanaian politician. He is the former Minister for Youth and Sports in Ghana.
Global citizenship education (GCED) is a form of civic learning that involves students' active participation in projects that address global issues of a social,political,economic,or environmental nature. The two main elements of GCE are 'global consciousness';the moral or ethical aspect of global issues,and 'global competencies',or skills meant to enable learners to participate in changing and developing the world. The promotion of GCE was a response by governments and NGOs to the emergence of supranational institution,regional economic blocs,and the development of information and communications technologies. These have all resulted in the emergence of a more globally oriented and collaborative approach to education. GCE addresses themes such as peace and human rights,intercultural understanding,citizenship education,respect for diversity and tolerance,and inclusiveness.
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA),two of five international organizations owned by the World Bank Group. It was established along with the International Monetary Fund at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. After a slow start,its first loan was to France in 1947. In the 1970s,it focused on loans to developing world countries,shifting away from that mission in the 1980s. For the last 30 years,it has included NGOs and environmental groups in its loan portfolio. Its loan strategy is influenced by the Millennium Development Goals as well as environmental and social safeguards.
