Our partners
CAIXA FUNDATION
www.obrasocial.lacaixa.es
Caixa is a non-profit foundation that constitutes the social branch of La Caixa, a spanish Bank. It extends to a great amount of themes, from culture, art, design, to welfare projects to end poverty and social discrimination of all sorts.
FABRICA www.fabrica.it
Fabrica, Benetton’s communication research centre, was set up in 1994. It is based in Treviso, Italy. It is not a school, advertising agency or university. It is an applied creativity laboratory, a talent incubator, a studio of sorts in which young, modern artists come from all over the world to develop innovative projects and explore new directions in myriad avenues of communication, from design, music and film to photography, publishing and the Internet. Fabrica’s aim is to grasp the future by giving innovative exposure to cultural or scientific projects which open a window onto tomorrow’s world.
ICOGRADA www.icograda.org
Icograda (the International Council of Graphic Design Associations) is the world body for professional communication design. Founded in 1963, it is a voluntary assembly of organisations concerned with graphic design, visual communication, design management, promotion, education, research and journalism. Icograda promotes communication designers’ vital role in society and commerce and unifies the voices of graphic designers and visual communicators worldwide.
The Council of Europe, based in Strasbourg (France), now covers virtually the entire European continent, with its 47 member countries. Founded on 5 May 1949 by 10 countries, the Council of Europe seeks to develop throughout Europe common and democratic principles based on the European Convention on Human Rights and other reference texts on the protection of individuals.
In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. In doing so, UN Member States took an historic step in accelerating the Organization’s goals on gender equality and the empowerment of women.The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system, which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Launched in 2008, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign is a multi-year effort aimed at preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls in all parts of the world. UNiTE calls on governments, civil society, women’s organizations, young people, the private sector, the media and the entire UN system to join forces in addressing the global pandemic of violence against women and girls.
The mandate of the Regional Office for Europe is based on that of the High Commissioner as the principal UN official in charge of the promotion and protection of human rights.Through the integration of the UN’s human rights standards into EU-wide policies, legislation and implementation measures, the Regional Office aims to help address human rights challenges in Europe.
Attiko Metro Operation Company S.A. (ΑΜΕL S.A.) has been operating the ATHENS METRO Lines 2 and 3 since they were commissioned in January 2000. Approximately 650,000 passengers use the two Metro Lines on a daily basis. It has been estimated that the Metro’s operation reduced the number of cars entering the city center daily by 70,000.
Equality Now was founded in 1992 to work for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women around the world. Working with national human rights organizations and individual activists, Equality Now documents violence and discrimination against women and mobilizes international action to support their efforts to stop these human rights abuses.
NET POLEIS is a network of public, private and academic institutions, NGOs, schools, representatives of the civil society, using the modern information and communications technologies to promote activities for enhancing public awareness about crucial global themes relevant to the UN. Last year it was UNRIC’s partner in organizing a week of celebrations for the UN Day, and will replicate the initiative this year.
AIDOS (Italian Association for Women in Development), is a women’s group and non-governmental organization for development cooperation, founded in 1981. Right from the start, AIDOS has worked in developing countries, in Italy and with international organizations to build, promote and defend the rights, dignity, well-being and progress of women everywhere. AIDOS works in partnership with local organizations and institutions to provide women and their organizations with instruments from the areas of experience of the women’s movement in Italy that have been most successful.
The AIDOS approach is based on the ongoing dialogue and partnership with women’s and non-governmental organizations worldwide, based on the roots and the Italian women’s movement. AIDOS also does important work in collaboration with the United Nations system: AIDOS hold special consultant status with ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council of the United Nations), and is the Italian focal point for former INSTRAW (United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women) and UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund).
LE TEMPS www.letemps.ch
Le Temps is one of Switzerland’s leading daily newspapers. The French language newspaper is published in Geneva and has editorial offices in Geneva, Lausanne, Berne and Zurich.
The Irish Times was founded in 1859 and is Ireland’s newspaper of record. It is one of three daily broadsheet papers in Ireland and generally perceived as being liberal and politically independent.
Milliyet is a major Turkish daily newspaper founded in 1950. Milliyet is published by the same media conglomerate, Doğan Medya, which publishes Hürriyet, Radikal and several others.
Funded in 1867, La Stampa is one of the best-known, most influential and most widely circulated Italian dailies. Published in Turin, it is distributed in Italy and other European nations. Its website was established in 1999. According to recent surveys, it enjoys an average number of 1.693.000 readers per day, of whom 148000 also browsing its online edition. La Stampa has already been UNRIC partner for last year’s information campaign “Wecanendpoverty”.
Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper owned by La Vie-Le Monde Group and edited in Paris. It is considered the French newspaper of record, and has generally been well respected since its first edition under founder Hubert Beuve-Méry on 19 December 1944. It was founded at the request of General Charles de Gaulle.
Le Soir (meaning The Evening) is a Belgian newspaper. Le Soir was founded in 1887 by Emile Rossel. It is the most popular Francophone newspaper in Belgium, and considered a newspaper of record.
Every morning, in over 100 major cities across the world, millions of industrious metropolitans take to the streets, buses and trains on their way to work. With its unbiased views, engaging features and simple design, Metro has been the preferred source of morning news for metropolitans since its launch in early 1995; and it comes for free!
From New York to Paris or Hong Kong to Mexico, Metro has come to know its local urban readers well and has refined its offering to deliver exactly the content they want. Such excellent local market knowledge can provide invaluable insights to advertisers looking to reach this demanding audience.
EL PAíS www.elpais.com
El País is the most widely-circulated newspaper in Spain.
Der Standard is an Austrian national daily newspaper which is published in Vienna. It is published on distinctive pink paper.
Público is a Portuguese daily national newspaper, widely regarded as a newspaper of record. The newspaper is known as a publication of the French school, with extensive texts and few illustrations.
Visir.is is the news portal and website of the 365 Media group in Reykjavík, Iceland which is the publisher of the newspaper Fréttablaðið, the Television station Channel 2 and several radio stations including Bylgjan.
Fréttablaðið is Iceland´s biggest newspaper.
One of the biggest subsidiaries of the global mulit-brand media and marketing company Reader’s Digest is based in Germany. The company develops and sells magazines like Reader’s Digest, which is the largest paid-circulation monthly magazine in the German magazine market, books, audio books, music and videos that educate, entertain and connect their audience. In doing this, it benefits from its involvement in the international Reader’s Digest Group – living up to the principle “Think global, act local“. In Switzerland and Austria, the company is represented by separate branch offices
AECID www.aecid.es
The Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development is an official Spanish Agency created in 1988.
The Federal Foreign Office in the government of Germany is the Office responsible for the foreign relations of Germany. The Office is located in Berlin close to the German Bundestag. The Federal Foreign Office is led by Guido Westerwelle, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs.
The Department for Equal Opportunities – headed by Minister Ms. Mara Carfagna – within the Presidency of the Council is tasked by the government to exert the functions of programming, addressing and coordinating all the initiatives, including legislative, as well as any other function relating to the promotion of human rights, equal opportunities, equality of treatment, prevention and elimination of any form and cause of discrimination.
BANCA POPOLARE DI SONDRIO www.popso.it
Founded in 1871, the Banca Popolare di Sondrio is one of the first popular Italian banks that was inspired by the popular cooperative banking movement. Over time and thanks to the gradual expansion of it’s activities and presence on the territory, the bank gained more regional dimensions with the possibility of operating nationwide, while at the same time keeping strong ties to the zone of origin.
NCDO
NCDO stands for Nationale Commissie voor Internationale Samenwerking en Duurzame Ontwikkeling (National Committee for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development). NCDO involves people in the Netherlands in international cooperation and supports them with information, subsidies and advice. The millennium goals provide the point of reference for all these activities. NCDO helps people and organisations in the Netherlands who dedicate themselves to improving the position of people in developing countries. It supports these local development projects with advice and subsidies.
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