The United Nations will be a participant in the 2015 Milan EXPO, thanks to the contract signed today at FAO by EXPO Commissioner Giuseppe Slala and Deputy Director of FAO Eduardo Rojas Briales. \u201cTruly a major step\u201d, Minister for Foreign Affair Emma Bonino called it. The UN system\u2019s participation in the EXPO was \u201can absolutely indispensable prerequisite\u201d, since the agencies headquartered in Rome are \u201ca much sought-after partnership and I am very happy that they have all responded\u201d.<\/P>
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EXPO in a female key<\/STRONG><\/P> The 2015 EXPO will be \u201cin a female key\u201d, the minister then underscored, explaining that \u201cthere is no one model\u201d, but that it was important to \u201cmake the most of diversity\u201d in order to be sure the 2015 event will be a \u201cplace of synergies\u201d. Bonino pointed out the \u201cterrible paradox\u201d of a billion people suffering from hunger and another billion overfed, and the need to reset the balance in which the function of women is absolutely fundamental. \u201cThe solutions are multiple\u201d, the minister explained, \u201cand we are going to have to achieve them step by step, sector by sector\u201d. And, even though \u201cideas on development differ\u201d, agreement can be found \u201cby considering all the possibilities\u201d and involving \u201ccivil society, governments, NGOs, institutions and international organisations\u201d. This EXPO, she stressed, \u201cwill not be remembered for its skyscrapers and architecture, but for its ideas\u201d.<\/P> Women\u2019s role in food security<\/STRONG><\/P> Present at the ceremony also were FAO Director General Jos\u00e9 Graziano da Silva, IFAD President Kanayo F.Nwanze and Director of the Partnerships with Governments Division of WFP. Previous to today\u2019s event, FAO had hosted the \u201cWomen and Nutrition: ideas for a sustainable future\u201d seminar, organised by the Expo and the foreign ministry, whose participants included Minister Bonino and the UN S-G\u2019s Special Representative for Food Security and Nutrition David Nabarro. The event, held in the margins of the preparations for the 2nd international conference on nutrition, offered an opportunity to examine the theme of food security and nutrition from the point of view of women\u2019s role.Women in Diplomacy Committee in RomeThe role of women in the Expo was the focus of the International Board of Women in Diplomacy on Wednesday at Villa Madama, which met for the purpose of launching efforts toward the promotion of the role of women in food security, and of assisting the foreign ministry in setting up conferences and workshops ahead of the 2015 EXPO in Milan. Participants included Emma Bonino, Nobel laureate Jody Williams, CEO of the EXPO 2015 Giuseppe Sala and Minister for Integration C\u00e9cile Kyenge.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Nations will be a participant in the 2015 Milan EXPO, thanks to the contract signed today at FAO by EXPO Commissioner Giuseppe Slala and Deputy Director of FAO Eduardo Rojas Briales. \u201cTruly a major step\u201d, Minister for Foreign Affair Emma Bonino called it. The UN system\u2019s participation in the EXPO was \u201can absolutely […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29,3,35,43,44],"class_list":["post-15235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-cooperazione-sviluppo","tag-diplomazia-economica","tag-diplomazia-scientifica","tag-diritti-umani","tag-energia-ambiente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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