Non-Violence, also known as The Knotted Gun, is a bronze sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
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The 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) opens today (Tuesday 14 September). The UN’s roots lie in determination that the horrors of World War II – millions of lives lost, economic devastation and genocide – should never happen again.
The UN system exists because we need global cooperation to forestall disaster and create enduring prosperity by promoting peace and security, fostering strong bonds among nations, and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights.
We are far from the founding threat and horrors of World War II, but global leaders must rekindle that determination to rise above national interests and face our 21st-century disasters together.
This year’s General Assembly session is considering multiple global catastrophes, from climate change to the COVID-19 pandemic to growing political instability exacerbated and highlighted by the inequitable burdens of the pandemic. For each, we must consider important technical responses, but we will fail across all of them if we cannot strengthen global cooperation and multilateralism.
The official death toll of COVID-19 has climbed to 4.5 million, and the true toll is much larger, perhaps as high as 15 million lives lost. It’s a stunning indictment of decades of underinvestment in global health security and pandemic preparedness. Without significant progress, we will not only be unable to address COVID-19 sufficiently, we will also be left vulnerable to future threats that experts predict will happen more and more frequently.
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