Past event from the ‘Week Ahead at the United Nations in Brussels/Belgium’. For upcoming events, visit the main page. 7 May Rescuing the Endangered Cultural Heritage of Earthquake-hit Region ...
https://unric.org/en/the-week-ahead-un-in-brussels-past-events/
To mark World Environment Day, the United Nations in Brussels and Bozar will screen the European première of “Our Blue World”. Synopsis Planet Earth is in the grip of an environmental crisis...
monthly issue of the UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter featuring new UN websites and publications The post UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter: May 2024 appeared first on United Nations ...
https://unric.org/en/unric-info-point-library-newsletter-may-2024/
For the first time, the upcoming World Migratory Bird Day campaign in 2024 will focus on insects’ importance to migratory birds and highlight concerns related to decreasing insect populations.�...
https://unric.org/en/world-migratory-bird-day-2024-protect-insects-to-protect-birds/
UN Trade and Development receives a contribution of nearly $1 million to bolster e-commerce and the digital economy across developing countries. Renewing long-standing partnerships, the Nordic na...
https://unric.org/en/new-funds-from-sweden-to-foster-inclusive-digital-economy/
When: 16 May 2024, 9:30AM – 14.00PM CEST Where: Résidence Palace, rue de la Loi 155, 1000 Brussels Additional event information The event will be webstreamed, here. The textile sector is wove...
https://unric.org/en/unbt-threads-of-change-systemic-transformation-of-the-textile-sector/
The Climate Tower on the UN Bonn Campus, completed in 2022, has achieved the “Gold Standard” in the German Sustainable Building Rating System (BNB). On 2 May 2024, Chhaya Kapilashrami, Senior...
https://unric.org/en/sustainability-award-for-climate-tower-on-un-bonn-campus/
The Committee against Torture today concluded its consideration of the eighth periodic report of Finland, with Committee Experts praising the State party’s commitment to implementing recommenda...
https://unric.org/en/the-committee-against-torture-reviewed-measures-taken-by-finland/
School meals. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has received a generous contribution of US$1.4 million from the Government of Iceland to provide nutritious meals to 36,000 school chil...
https://unric.org/en/iceland-and-wfp-support-sierra-leone-government-school-meals-programme/
In its new report “Press and Planet in Danger”, published on 3 May to mark World Press Freedom Day, UNESCO reveals that 70% of environmental journalists have suffered attacks related to thei...
https://unric.org/en/world-press-freedom-day-reporting-on-the-environment-an-increasingly-risky-job/
Over one million Rohingya, a Muslim minority from Myanmar, have fled conflict and persecution in multiple waves of displacement. The most significant exodus occurred in August 2017 when 742,000 ...
The climate and biodiversity crises have far-reaching effects, not only on the environment and ecosystems but also on billions of people around the world whose stories of upheaval and loss deser...
Three Nordic countries — Norway, Sweden and Denmark — are in the first three places of the World Press Freedom Index 2024. They are followed by the Netherlands in fourth place and Finland in ...
https://unric.org/en/nordic-countries-top-the-press-freedom-index-2/
The Refugee-led Innovation Fund champions the creativity of all displaced and stateless people. It aims to reshape their participation in the delivery of humanitarian work by ensuring they take c...
Jazz. Nordic Countries. International Jazz Day 2024 30 April will be hosted for the first time in the African continent, by the city of Tangier, Morocco. The celebration will culminate in an All-...
https://unric.org/en/international-jazz-day-from-tangier-to-landskrona-oslo-to-oulo/