New! Geospatial Team launches “Mapping for a Sustainable World”
The Geospatial Information Section has launched a new publication: Mapping for a Sustainable World.
Secretary-General: 2021 a ‘crucial year’ for climate change
The world is far from achieving agreed goals to reduce global warming in line with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the UN Secretary-General warned on Monday in his ongoing bid to secure greater commitment to averting climate catastrophe. Watch video.
Make 2021 a year of possibility and hope, says Guterres
Following an “annus horribilis” of death, disaster and despair, 2021 must be a year of transformation, Secretary-General António Guterres told the UN’s 193 Member States on Thursday.
Check out the new UN Results portal
The newly launched results.un.org portal is a product of the reform, providing access to hundreds of results contained in the proposed programme budget for 2021.
Parité des sexes sur le terrain : des améliorations techniques
Une des quatre priorités dans la Stratégie du Secrétaire général pour la parité des sexes dans l’ensemble du système est l’amélioration des conditions de vie dans les missions sur le terrain.
Engineering enhancements advance gender parity in the field
One of the four priority action areas of the Secretary-General’s System-wide Strategy on Gender Parity is to improve the working and living conditions in field missions to help bridge the gender gap.
Economic and Social Council turns 75
Marking its 75th anniversary amid the most serious economic and health crisis the UN has ever faced, the Organization’s Economic and Social Council “has the mandate and the responsibility to respond to these challenges” the body’s President, Munir Akram, said on Saturday.
UN issues Year of the Ox stamps to celebrate the lunar calendar
On 22 January, the UN Postal Administration (UNPA) celebrates the Chinese New Year with the issuance of a special event sheet commemorating the Year of the Ox.
Secretary-General appoints new Head of MONUSCO
On 14 January, Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of Bintou Keita of Guinea as his Special Representative in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO).
UN Archives presents UN Korean Reconstruction Agency photos
With the generous financial contribution from the National Archives of the Republic of Korea, the Archives and Records Management Section (ARMS) was able to digitize four photographic albums consisting of more than 2,100 historic photographs from the archives of United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA).