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.
Newsletter of the Universal Esperanto Association’s United Nations Office Number 44, January 2020 UNESCO and China Report Press team up to publish magazine in Esperanto On Jan 7, the signing ceremony for an agreement on co-publishing the Esperanto edition of The UNESCO Courier was held at the offices of the China International Publishing Group (CIPG). …
Click here to read our message. Each year, on December 10, we celebrate Human Rights Day, the date on which in 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. Fundamental to the work of the United Nations and written into its Charter is respect for human rights and …
Number 43, November 2019 UEA mourns the passing of Louis Zaleski-Zamenhof Sole surviving grandson of the creator of Esperanto, Louis-Christophe (Ludoviko Kristoforo) ZALESKI-ZAMENHOF (born 23 January 1925 in Warsaw, died 9 October 2019 in Paris) was a doctor of civil and marine engineering with a specialty in prestressed concrete. He was the grandson of L. …