Dr. Essam Heggy has submitted a reply to the IOPScience‘s Environmental Research section, entitled on “Egypt’s water budget deficit and suggested mitigation policies for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam filling scenarios’. “The reply herein shows the factual incorrectness of the comment by Eladawy, Asefa and El Nour, which is primarily supported by mis-citations and misinterpretations…
VA’s input has been selected for inclusion in the Special high-level dialogue entitled “The Africa We Want: Reconfirming the Development of Africa as a Priority of the United Nations System” at UN Headquarters on 20 July 2022. The event was hosted by the UN General Assembly and UN Economic and Social Council. The event was held under the…
In the context of the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development {HLPF ’22] organized by UN’s ECOSOC, Virtual Activism organized a panel entitled Egypt vulnerability to water stress & climate change: scientific and political perspectives. With a rising intrinsic water budget deficit due to rapid population growth and an increasing upstream damming on the…
The Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) is a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the UNs focal point for science, technology and innovation (STI) for development. It is a forum for strategic planning, sharing lessons learned and best practices, providing foresight about critical trends in STI in key…
Virtual Activism attended the first consultation with the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes. The session was the First Intersessional Consultation, as mandated by operative paragraph 10 of General Assembly resolution 75/282, 24-25 March 2022, and it took place at…
Humanitarian Icons Font Awesome is an industry-standard collection of icons that are used in web development. In a surprise collaboration between OCHA (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) and Font Awesome, the latter created what it terms ‘humanitarian icons’ that are all free. These icons depict themes of interest to the humanitarian…
In the Context of the Commission on the Status of Women ’22, VA’s executive director, Marlyn Tadros, participated in the Arab States MENA Regional Caucus. Climate Change was one of the top issues on the agenda.
Every year, we post about games to play and workshops to attend to understand the intersection between human rights, ethics, and emerging technologies. Here are a few: 1- Workshop: Defending human rights in the age of artificial intelligence: this is a free and open workshop organized by UNESCO and UNITAR. The course break down complex…
