Month: July 2019

On July 19, 2019 Pirates gathered again in New York City for the UN Sustainable Development Program and High Level Political Forum Pirate Parties International was chosen as one of 34 NGOs whose statements were approved to be made in front of the entire ECOSOC council. Dr. Ohad Shem Tov presented the following speech on behalf of PPI at the ECOSOC High-Level Segment. Watch a video of his speech from the event as broadcast live on the official UN TV channel: Pirates were guests of the UN Trusteeship Council and able to make acquaintances with numerous NGOs and leading governmental and UN officials. In doing so, they were able to …

On February 19th, 2019 Dr. Ohad Bar Siman-Tov presented the following speech at the 57th UN Commission for Social Development (CSocD57) at UN Headquarters in New York. Over the course of February 11th to 21st several PPI representatives from around the world converged on New York for the event, including Mr. Raymond Johansen, Ms. Bailey Lamon, Mr. Ladislav Koubek, and Dr. Ohad Shem Tov. The following are some of their pictures from the event. The official publication of PPI’s full statement is available here: //undocs.org/E/CN.5/2019/NGO/34 A copy of the text of the statement:   PPI is working to make a vocal presence at the UN by speaking at high level …