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Friday, 24 February 2017
Global | New York
UNEP launches a 5-year global marine litter campaign at the Economist World Ocean Summit 2017 in Bal, to highlight the state of our oceans awash with plastic waste.
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Global | New York
UNEP launches a 5-year global marine litter campaign at the Economist World Ocean Summit 2017 in Bal, to highlight the state of our oceans awash with plastic waste.
DPI | Global
To address the current global migrant crisis, UNICEF and UNHCR have come up with new communications material about refugees. Get familiar with it !!
New York | iSeek
UN Secretary-General’s statement on the death of Ambassador Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin.
Candidates wishing to join the UN language services as translators, editors, verbatim reporters or copy preparers/proofreaders/production editors can now take a single remote language competitive exam
Port-au-Prince | MINUSTAH
Promoting new ways of fighting Haiti's cholera outbreak, with the goal of eradicating it completely, is a top priority for MINUSTAH’s administration. With this objective, on 5 January 2017, the Mission launched a voluntary cholera vaccination campaign for its civil and military personnel, targeted at staff that haven’t yet been vaccinated and those who are not up to date with their vaccines.
Global | EOSG
Find a list of positions in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General for which interested and qualified candidates are invited to express interest by the specified deadline.
Vienna | UNOV
Who are the UN Organizations in Vienna and how is their work contributing towards sustainable development and peace? The new common web portal of the UN family in Vienna provides an easy way to find answers to these questions.
Global | DPA
Being up-to-date with the practices of the Security Council can be an effective way of taking the pulse of complex international peace and security situations being seized and addressed by the United Nations, and the 2016 Highlights of Security Council Practice offers a snapshot of the activities of the Security Council during the course of the year.
Global | EOSG
List of positions in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General for which interested and qualified candidates are invited to express interest by the specified deadline.
Paris | François Nordmann, Elizabeth de Kémoularia
Claude de Kemoularia, a French banker and diplomat who recently passed away at the age of 94, confessed to having two passions: diplomacy and French domestic politics. He was involved in the work of the Organization during two stages of his long career.