Jana Urh Lesjak

Diplomat, DPR, SLO mission to Geneva

[Slovenia to UN Geneva @SLOtoUNGeneva]

20 years after its establishment, @UN_HRC remains indispensable for promotion & protection of human rights.

Proud to have served in core group 🇸🇮 🇲🇽 🇹🇭 🇲🇦 🇪🇸 🇪🇪 behind #HRC20 resolution reaffirming commitment to stronger, more effective & inclusive Council for the future. 🌎

[Delo @Delo]

V sodelovanju z Mayo, najboljšo bolnišnico na svetu, so razvili prvi lasten klinični produkt PlanOne, ki že ima FDA odobritev.
Piše: Pija Kapitanovič
https://t.co/nIO76hSZ5N

[Slovenia to UN Geneva @SLOtoUNGeneva]

👋 Greetings from this year’s Europe Day celebrations in Geneva! 🇪🇺

Team Slovenia was proud to join the celebration of European unity, values & cooperation - while sharing a taste of Slovenia through our traditional “potica” and a selection of wine.🍷✨

#TeamEurope 💙

[Slovenia to UN Geneva @SLOtoUNGeneva]

💧#WorldWaterDay 💦

When women & girls have an equal voice in water decisions, services become more inclusive, sustainable and effective.

Yet ~14% of countries still lack equal participation mechanisms.

This #WWD, let's invest in women’s leadership in water governance! 🌍

[Slovenia to UN Geneva @SLOtoUNGeneva]

Join us for #HRC61 side event hosted by @SREnvironment w/ support of
core group on Human Right to Clean, Healthy & Sustainable environment
🇸🇮, 🇨🇷, 🇲🇻, 🇲🇦
& 🇲🇨 to discuss actions for clean air & human rights.

📍Room IX, Palais
⏰ 13:00–14:00

#CleanAir
#HumanRightsForAll

[Slovenia to UN Geneva @SLOtoUNGeneva]

#HRC61| Today, 🇸🇮 delivered JST on behalf of #R2HE Core Group - 🇸🇮 🇨🇭 🇲🇻 🇲🇦 🇨🇷.

Clean air is fundamental component of #R2HE.

Recognising #R2HE must be followed by action:
👉translating commitments into practice
👉embedding HR-based approach in air quality frameworks

@MZEZ_RS

[Mladina @SpletnaMladina]

»Volitve niso tekmovanje v všečnosti. So preizkus integritete. Ne zanima me več, kdo je komu kaj rekel na omrežjih. Zanima me, s kakšnim programom, kako in s kom boste vladali, kje boste popustili, kaj boste priznali kot svojo napako.«

https://t.co/CSfkpuy29M

[UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC]

🔴 LIVE from @UNGeneva

Opening of the 61st session of the @UN Human Rights Council

Watch #HRC61 here⤵️
https://t.co/wc8J8tmZpV

[UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC]

"Human rights are not a slogan for good times. They are a duty at all times.

"And so we must stand up for them – even when it is difficult, inconvenient, or costly.

"Especially then."

- @UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres at the opening of the Human Rights Council.

#HRC61

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Boston, 1712. The midwife hands a baby girl to her mother. Fifteenth child in the Franklin household. They name her Jane...

Seven years later, another baby arrives. A boy. Benjamin. Number seventeen.

Same parents. Same cramped house. Same poverty. Two children who will share almost identical genetic potential. But their lives will split so completely that 250 years later, one name will be on currency and in every history textbook, while the other will be barely a whisper in footnotes.

Jane Franklin married at fifteen. Not for love. For subtraction. One less mouth for her parents to feed. Her husband Edward made saddles, which meant irregular income and a future of counting pennies until her fingers ached. Her brother Benjamin left home around the same time. Learned printing. Moved to Philadelphia. Started climbing.

Jane started something else. Pregnancy. Twelve times in twenty-two years. Her body became a factory of life that kept delivering heartbreak. The babies came, and then they left. Josiah at five years old. Sarah as a toddler. Benjamin at three. Another Jane at seven. The names blur together in colonial death records, assuming there were records at all.

Eleven of her twelve children died before she did.

While Benjamin Franklin sat in London drawing rooms discussing natural philosophy, Jane sat in Boston doing arithmetic that meant survival. Three shillings for rent. Can we afford candles this week? How much soap can I make before my hands crack open?

She wasn't less intelligent than her famous brother. Her letters prove a mind just as sharp, just as curious. She read everything she could find. She understood politics deeply. She thought in complex, elegant sentences.

But intelligence without access is just potential that evaporates. Benjamin got apprenticeship and patronage. Jane got a husband whose mind deteriorated, leaving her as sole provider for a household that kept expanding and collapsing in cycles of birth and death.

She made soap. Took in boarders. Sewed by candlelight until her vision blurred. Became the communication center for the entire Franklin family network, coordinating help and resources, invisible infrastructure that held everything together.

When Benjamin died in 1790, twenty thousand people attended his funeral. France mourned. He'd secured his legacy as a founder, inventor, diplomat. He left Jane a house and income. She was seventy-eight. For the first time in sixty-three years of marriage, she had financial security. She lived four more years before dying quietly in Boston.

Same family. Same intelligence. Wildly different outcomes based entirely on which body they were born into.

📷© Bodoklecksel (Wikimedia Commons) / Die grossen Polarexpeditionen London 1978 (Restored & Colorized)

© Daughters of Time

#archaeohistories

[Jana Urh Lesjak @connection2030]

@lukavalas My salary depends on you - my fellow Slovenes- understanding foreign policy and its purpose :) Neuvrščeni: ne vidim, da bi imeli "veliki" problem s tem. Trump na veliko podpisuje migracijske sporazume z NAM as we speak. PAL: smo med 157 od 193 -tih, vključno 16 EU.

[Jana Urh Lesjak @connection2030]

@TKajzer Veleposlanik, na MGE smo trenutno v večini dekleta, ampak nekatere z zavidljivimi alpinisticnimi izkusnjami in kar nekaj pretecenimi maratoni, tako da...bring it on😃

[Slovenia to UN Geneva @SLOtoUNGeneva]

On the Int’l Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Slovenia 🇸🇮 reaffirms its commitment to protecting women and girls from all forms of violence. 🧡

We join #OrangeTheWorld campaign - because there is #NoExcuse for any type of violence, anywhere!

🟠 #16Days 🟠

[Jana Urh Lesjak @connection2030]

The future of multilateral diplomacy lies not in technological advancement but in the full activation of our conscious awareness — the very human capacity for wisdom and empathy - that distinguishes us from AI.
#creativediplomacy #breathingbridges #futureofmultilateralism

[Slovenia to UN Geneva @SLOtoUNGeneva]

💧#Water is not a sectoral issue but a fundamental enabler of human rights, participatory governance & stability.

Linking SDG6 on water with SDG16 on strong institutions is essential for fair & sustainable water governance. 💦

📍🇸🇮 at #HRC60 ID with @SRWatSan

[Slovenia to UN Geneva @SLOtoUNGeneva]

“Back to school” spirit at @UN_HRC 📚🖊️

Delegates kicked off #HRC60 with a reminder of Slovenia’s candidacy for the Human Rights Council (2026–2028):

📖 A brochure with priorities & commitments
🙌 A small gift to start the session on the right note

#Slovenia4HRC 🇸🇮

[SREnvironment @SREnvironment]

Exactly

This was without doubt, one of the most important recognition from the ICJ

[SR human rights & climate change, Elisa Morgera @SRclimatechange]

📣today: reflecting on Inter-American Court's Advisory Opinion on #Climate Emergency & #HumanRights with
👉 Theresa Amor-Juergenssen (World's Youth for #ClimateJustice)
👉 César Rodríguez Garavito (NYU)
👉 David Boyd (former UNSR Environment)

4pm CET https://t.co/NtVOOUAQck

[Slovenia to UN Geneva @SLOtoUNGeneva]

Reporting live: @UN_HRC has also just adopted a resolution by 🇸🇮 🇲🇻 🇨🇷 🇲🇦 on the human right to a clean, healthy & sustainable environment!

The resolution marks an important step towards promotion & protection of human rights in relation to the oceans. 🐠 🌊 🐳

📍#HRC58 #R2HE