Pearson Falkner

IISS - The Scale of Russian Sabotage Operations Against Europe’s Critical Infrastructure iiss.org/research-paper…

I'm pleased to share the 2024–2025 Year in Review report, highlighting the Economic and Social Council’s work and achievements under the presidency of my predecessor @BobRae48. #GlobalGoals #SDGs bit.ly/3Hfl5Fc

#AI has the power to transform economies and improve living standards in developing countries. Join us LIVE @UNECOSOC as we discuss: -Key barriers to AI-driven transformation
-Building AI ecosystems through collaboration
-Policy and governance mechanisms for inclusive AI Be part of the conversation 👉 webtv.un.org/en/asset/k15/k…

Former United States President John F. Kennedy, spoke to #Canadian Parliament in 1961 on their country’s unique relationship with Canada. #Throwback 📷 Ducan Cameron

🇨🇦 CANADIAN SHOPPING GUIDE 🇨🇦 Want to support Canadian companies? Here are some Canadian businesses that sell high quality menswear. Some also carry womenswear. 🧵

The harm to US industry imposed by the steel and aluminum tariffs announced last night is especially obvious with regard to imports of aluminum from Canada 🧵

💡 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗦𝗢𝗖 #𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘂𝗺 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 #𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵, #𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 #𝗔𝗜. 🔹 The SDG Action Segment for Goal 8 focused on the role of technology, partnerships, and social dialogue in advancing productivity, job creation, and economic inclusion. 🔹 The side event "AI and Its Impact on SDGs 5, 8 & 17" explored how AI can drive gender equality, economic growth, and global partnerships while ensuring ethical deployment, fair access to opportunities, and skills development. IOE extends its gratitude to @UNIDONewYork, @ilo , the Presidency of @UNECOSOC, the Permanent Mission of the @Kingdom of Morocco, for their collaboration in organising these discussions and to our valued partners @LinkedIn and @Deloitte and all distinguished speakers President of ECOSOC @BobRae48, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations Omar Hilale, @janahi_sonya, @ColonjuwonILO, @gioasempre, Paola Simonetti, Ralf Bredel, Ourida Chalouati, Marco Pérez Molina, Sangheon Lee, @ralbrieu, Fatima Coulibaly, @PearsonFalkner, for their contributions.

Minister Joly was among 20 women who spoke before the General Assembly at #UNGA79—yet there is still a lot of work ahead. Despite being underrepresented, when women are in leadership roles, progress happens.

🌍 The @UN General Assembly is underway, and the Summit of the Future is just around the corner! 📺 IOE is pleased to launch its Expert Insight series with Robert Rae, President of @UNECOSOC and Canadian Ambassador to the UN, discussing the challenges facing #multilateralism. As #AI and tech innovation reshape our world, ensuring global access to #technology is essential to avoiding a #DigitalDivide. Hear how the #PrivateSector plays a crucial role in bridging this divide through innovation and beyond ⏩ youtu.be/qa3mRmaIPAM #UNGA79 #OurCommonFuture #VoiceofBusiness

This week, I travelled to #Haiti, marking my first official visit as President of @UNECOSOC. Over the past three days in Port-au-Prince, I met with Haitian authorities, civil society representatives, women leaders, and UN representatives. The Haitians’ incredible resilience is inspiring and reminds us of our responsibility to support them in their journey to stability and sustainable development. #HaitiCantWait

Congratulations to H.E. Bob Rae on being elected President of @UNECOSOC for the 2025 session! We're excited for his vision and leadership in advancing the #SDGs and fostering international cooperation. #2030Agenda #GlobalGoals

#BREAKING Robert Rae of Canada ELECTED by acclamation President of the UN Economic and Social Council, @UNECOSOC, for its 2025 session (25 Jul 2024 - 30 Jul 2025)

Congratulations @paulanarvaezo @ChileONU for your inclusive, dynamic ECOSOC presidency marked by an unwavering commitment to advancing the Sustainable Development Goals.

Over the past year as @UNECOSOC, you have focused on the future of work, artificial intelligence, and the need to strengthen multilateralism. @ChileONU, Canada looks forward to building on your work!

.@BobRae48 is elected President of @UNECOSOC!!   Canada looks forward to taking this leadership role at such a crucial time and thanks Member States for their confidence. 🎉🇺🇳🇨🇦🎉

Thought provoking event yesterday on #MentalHealth for children and young people which Canada was happy to co-organize. #MentalHealth awareness continues to grow, but more can be done to: - collect better data - de-stigmatize, and - support local and youth-led initiatives.

We have made progress, but we still have a long way to go to achieve the #UDHR international commitments we made 75 years ago. We must use the rights set out in the UDHR to write a future full of dignity, freedom and justice for all of us. #HumanRights75 #HumanRightDay #UDHR75

Why I am leaving Twitter. I have made the decision to leave Twitter. Twitter, far from being the groundbreaking medium that initially made information accessible to the greatest possible number of people, has in recent years become an impressive tool for destroying our democracies. Whether it be manipulation, disinformation, the fostering of hatred, harassment, anti-Semitism and open racism, or vicious attacks on scientists, climatologists, women, environmentalists, liberals and all those of good will who wish to engage in peaceful political debate in an increasingly complex world, the range of abuses is endless. Not to mention the daily external meddling in electoral processes, aimed at destabilizing our democracies and undermining their image and sovereignty. Today, controversy, rumor and crude manipulation rule public debate, fueled by Twitter's algorithm, where the only thing that counts is the number of "likes". Facts are irrelevant. This platform and its owner intentionally exacerbates tensions and conflicts. Furthermore, it intentionally hinders the information needed to bring about the ecological and energy transformation we much need, in favor of climate protectionist arguments driven by fossil fuel interests and boundless greed for the planet. We can keep denying, clarifying and explaining, but the noise produced by a piece of misinformation will still dwarf the echo of a proven truth. We must not deceive ourselves. We are dealing here with an utterly clear political project to push aside democracy and its values in favor of powerful private interests. The latest transparency report on content control, released by Twitter itself, ranks France first in Europe for violent and illegal content. This medium has become a gigantic global sewer, and we should continue to wade into it? We see it every day: Twitter hinders debate, the quest for truth, and the serene and constructive dialogue needed between human beings. With its thousands of anonymous accounts and its troll farms, life on Twitter is the exact opposite of democratic life. I refuse to endorse this evil scheme. I believe deeply in democracy, which remains in the making. I believe in exchanges, in these difficult times. We should never accept the bullying of vile attacks. We should not allow the "engineers of chaos" to seize control of our destinies. We should not accept the daily disintegration of our democracies on our screens. In March 2009, I was one of the first French women in politics to join this network, which today counts a community of over 1,500,000 subscribers worldwide. To remain true to my convictions and my commitment, I am leaving Twitter today. I will remain on other social media networks in which respectful exchanges can still take place: linktr.ee/anne_hidalgo We need more than ever to keep real democracy alive, whether it be through town councils, town meetings, referendums, conferences or get-togethers. These are places where people see each other, argue, build together and simply live together. When all is dark, we need to reach for the light and those great spirits who, at certain times in our history, have shown us the way. "We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will all die together as idiots", Martin Luther King told us in the early 1960s. We can trust each other and find our way back to democracy, peace and fraternity. It is in our hands. Read this Op-ED in @lemondefr : lemonde.fr/idees/article/…