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UN Special Adviser on Sport Concludes Visit to Kenya and Angola

25 May 2012

UN Special Adviser on Sport Wilfried Lemke visits a school in Nairobi, Kenya, 23 February 2012. © Olaf Ballnus/Parapictures

Geneva/Nairobi/Luanda (UNOSDP) – Wilfried Lemke, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace, has today concluded a five-day mission to Kenya and Angola. There, he continued his work as a facilitator and advocate for sport as an engine for human development and peace-building.

Funds for the Sahel are needed now, Raúl says during Visit to Chad

24 May 2012

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FAO Goodwill Ambassador football star Raúl González Blanco visits a therapeutic feeding centre for malnourished children during travel to Chad. ©FAO/Sia Kambou

24 May 2012, Brussels, Nyon, Rome (FAO) – On a visit to drought-stricken Chad, Spanish football star Raúl González added his voice to urgent calls for funding to prevent a full-blown food and nutrition crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa, where over 17 million people are at risk of hunger and more than one million children under five face acute malnutrition.

FC Barcelona and UNICEF strengthen their partnership for children in four countries

10 May 2012

UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake (centre) addresses an audience of 75 schoolchildren at the FC Barcelona stadium, 10 May 2012. © UNICEF/Spain

Barcelona (UNICEF) – In an event at the stadium of the legendary football team, Barcelona FC, the FC Barcelona Foundation and UNICEF today powered up their promise to improve the lives of millions of children through sport and education.

Germany Contributes 450,000 Euros to UN Office on Sport for its Activities in 2012

9 May 2012

German Ambassador Hanns Heinrich Schumacher (left) hands over symbolic check of 450,000 Euros to Wilfried Lemke, UN Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace. © UNOSDP

Geneva (UNOSDP) – Today in Geneva, Dr. Hanns Heinrich Schumacher, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations in Geneva, handed over a symbolic check of 450,000 Euros to Mr. Wilfried Lemke, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace. Since 2008 and Mr. Lemke’s appointment to the position, Germany has been the main funding partner of the Special Adviser and of his office, the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP).

30,000 spectators at charity match in Algiers for the benefit of UNESCO projects for children in Africa

24 April 2012

Source: UNESCO – No less than 30.000 people, including many families, came to the charity match organized by UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Rabah Madjer, on Monday 23 April 2012 at 5.30 pm at the 5 July 1962 Stadium in Algiers (Algeria), for the profit of UNESCO programmes on African Youth.

UN Secretary-General Plays Charity Football Match for Sierra Leone

21 April 2012

New York (UNOSDP) — Today, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined other diplomats in the "DiploMatch", a football match organized by the sport for peace NGO Play31. The goal of the match was to raise funds to hold community football tournaments in Sierra Leone. The NGO uses the unifying power of football to bring together people who have been torn apart by the Civil War which lasted more than a decade.

100-day countdown to the 2012 London Games celebrated at the UN

18 April 2012

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New York (UNOSDP) — To mark the 100 days until the opening of the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom to the UN in New York hosted an event today at the UN Headquarters in New York. In addition to host Sir Mark Lyall Grant, United Kingdom Ambassador and Permanent Representative, UN Deputy Secretary-General Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro also attended and delivered remarks.

United Nations Special Adviser on Sport Re-appointed for a Fifth Year

4 April 2012

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) meets with his Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace Wilfried Lemke at the 4th UN Alliance of Civilizations Forum in Doha, Qatar, on 11 December 2011. © UN Photo/Mark Garten

At the end of February, Wilfried Lemke accompanied UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Zambia in his capacity as his Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace. The visit capped off a busy and successful year for Mr. Lemke, who soon after received an extension of his appointment for a fifth consecutive year. Looking ahead, the UN official will keep exploring innovative ways to fully harness the potential of sport in fulfilling the mandate of the 193-member Organization.

Scrumming together with rugby players to end violence against women in Georgia

4 April 2012

Jamie McGoldrick, UN Resident Coordinator in Georgia, hands a special UNiTE Campaign prize to the "Man of the Match" Mamuka Gorgodze of Georgia. © Gogita Bukhaidze

(UN Women, edited by UNOSDP) – UN Women has been supporting efforts to address gender-based violence through outreach campaigns, as well as helping to improve services for survivors, and the capacities of service providers. A partnership between UN Women and the Georgian Rugby Union has recently fired the national imagination, particularly that of sports-inclined Georgians, through an innovative advocacy campaign.

European professional football sounds the alarm on the Sahel

28 March 2012

Brussels/Nyon/Rome (FAO) - The Professional Football Against Hunger campaign is coming to hundreds of European football stadiums with the message that action is needed now to avert a humanitarian disaster in the Sahel region of Africa, where a food and nutrition crisis caused by drought, chronic poverty, high food prices, displacement and conflict is affecting millions of people.

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