The United Nations Guide to Model UN is here!
The new book is the official guide for Model United Nations student leaders and advisors to best simulate how the UN operates.
New Website on Gender and Women, Peace and Security Agenda
To highlight the important role of women in peacemaking, the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs has launched a new web page dedicated to inclusive and gender responsive mediation.
Tourism sector must be rebuilt in a safe and equitable way
Launching his latest policy brief, the Secretary-General pointed out that the tourism industry “employs one-in-every-ten people on Earth and provides livelihoods to hundreds of millions more".
Experience the efforts of public servants during the pandemic
To celebrate UN Public Service Day on 23 June, DESA called for video submissions, showing public servants in action during the COVID-19 crisis.
New online series on 'building back better'; in Asia and Pacific
The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific has launched the Regional Conversation Series on Building Back Better.
New United Nations Flag Stamps
The United Nations Postal Administration is issuing new UN Flag stamps on 20 August: Bahrain, Belarus, Brazil, Cyprus, Dominica, Mauritania, Mongolia, and Paraguay.
UN Digital Library reaches 1 million metadata milestone
The Dag Hammarskjöld Library is celebrating the creation of over one million bibliographic metadata units in the UN Digital Library.
Anticipatory action in Bangladesh before peak monsoon flooding
In July, with monsoon rains descending on Bangladesh, the Centre for Humanitarian Data supported OCHA and partner organizations to act before disaster hit.
Real Life Heroes: building trust, and saving lives
Marie-Roseline Bélizaire, a doctor and epidemiologist with WHO, is using her passion for community medicine to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the Central African Republic (CAR).
Amid COVID-19, UN commitment to peace ‘more urgent than ever’
COVID-19 threatens not only hard-won development and peacebuilding gains but also “risks exacerbating conflicts or fomenting new ones”, the Secretary-General told the Security Council.
The United Nations Guide to Model UN is here!
The new book is the official guide for Model United Nations student leaders and advisors to best simulate how the UN operates.
Ways to enjoy the outdoors during COVID-19
The UN Bookshop has launched online sales of SDG gifts just in time to make your physically distanced outings a little more enjoyable.
Visitors Services launches virtual tours and online briefings
UN staff members are invited to take a UN Virtual Tour free of charge on the second Friday of every month at 11:00 am.
2020 Informational meetings with Member States
“We Are All In This Together” UN Stamps Support Frontline Workers
The UNPA is issuing stamps today, 11 August, entitled “We Are All in this Together – Help Stop the Spread of COVID-19".