Newsletter of the Universal Esperanto Association’s Office of Liaison with the United Nations Number 50, January-February 2021 December 9, 2020: One hundred years of co-operation between the Universal Esperanto Association and international governmental organizations Recently the Universal Esperanto Association celebrated one hundred years of cooperation with international governmental organizations. The League of Nations was established …
Newsletter of the Universal Esperanto Association’s Office of Liaison with the United Nations Number 49, November-December 2020 Statement of the Universal Esperanto Association on the occasion of the International Day of Non-Violence 2020, 2 October Each year the United Nations observes October 2 as the International Day of Non-Violence – a day on which we …
Newsletter of the Universal Esperanto Association’s Office of Liaison with the United Nations Number 48, September-October 2020 World Festival of Esperanto shatters predictions, gains worldwide participation Deprived of the World Congress of Esperanto, their traditional meeting place, because of the pandemic, Esperanto speakers initially expected 2020 to be a difficult year for the International Language …
Newsletter of the Universal Esperanto Association’s Office of Liaison with the United Nations Number 47, July-August 2020 UEA launches massive three-month World Festival of Esperanto Cancellation of the World Congress of Esperanto, which had been due to take place in the first week of August in Montreal, Canada, has led to a reverse response: there …
Address by Humphrey Tonkin, Representative of the Universal Esperanto Association to the United Nations The topic of the 105th World Congress of Esperanto in Montreal was to have been “The United Nations at 75: Dialogue and understanding in a changing world.” We chose this topic to emphasize the importance of the 75th anniversary, but primarily …
Opening of MondaFest, the World Festival of Esperanto, 20 June 2020 Read More »
Newsletter of the Universal Esperanto Association’s Office of Liaison with the United Nations Number 46, May-June 2020 UEA collaborates in UN survey on minority and language rights A three-way collaborative effort has been set up among UEA representatives in Geneva, New York and Vienna to assist in the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on …
Newsletter of the Universal Esperanto Association’s Office of Liaison with the United Nations Number 45, March 2020 Study Group and Princeton University delay 2020 symposium Faced with widespread closures and travel restrictions, the Study Group on Language and the United Nations has decided to postpone its 2020 symposium until the coming year. Under the title …
Click here to read our message. The Universal Esperanto Association salutes the world’s women, and particularly the members of the worldwide Esperanto community, on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2020.
Click here to read our message. The Universal Esperanto Association, as one of the few nongovernmental organizations concerned with questions of language, strongly supports International Mother Language Day and its message of linguistic justice for all. As Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, declared in 2018: “Our Organization shares with the Esperanto movement common values: the …
Click here to read our message. The Universal Esperanto Association (UEA) joins with the International League of Esperanto-speaking Teachers (ILEI) in congratulating the United Nations and UNESCO on the progress that they have made, in co-operation with their Member-States and with non-governmental organizations and civil society, in expanding the reach and the quality of education worldwide.