Covid-19: spreading kindness to end tough 2020 on positive note
After a turbulent 2020, households are bracing for a muted holiday season. Families may be separated by Covid-19 restrictions, and many will be remembering...
COVID-19 & HIV/AIDS: ‘colliding pandemics’
On the occasion of World AIDS Day, which takes place on 1 December, UNRIC spoke to Dutch Dr Jantine Jacobi, UNAIDS Brussels representative, about...
Orange the shadow pandemic
As the Covid-19 pandemic earlier this year shut down societies around the world, millions of women and girls faced a dangerous situation: staying home....
COVID-19 : Death every 17 seconds in Europe but there are...
355,000 have died of COVID-19 in the WHO European Region, including 29,000 last week, or one person every 17 seconds, the WHO Europe Director...
COVID-19: Nathan Peiffer-Smadja, infectious disease specialist and UN “influencer”
When not in his COVID-19 research lab or with patients in his infectious diseases department, Dr Nathan Peiffer-Smadja, is on Konbini, Huffington Post, or...
United Nations Cookbook Recipe Challenge
Enter your recipe for potential inclusion in the United Nations Cookbook!
Our food system needs fixing, and you can be a part of the solution....
COVID-19: an unprecedented news story for journalists
For journalists across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented news story. The relentless news cycle, an ‘infodemic’ of misinformation, let alone the...
UN Secretary-General launches #PledgetoPause to fight misinformation
The United Nations has launched a major initiative called #PledgetoPause to help stop the spread of misinformation online and to encourage people around the...
Simple measures can save 280.000 lives in Europe
The European Region has registered the highest weekly incidence of COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic with almost 700,000 cases reported.
The European...
HackingDisinfodemic
What can youth do to counter disinfodemic, using media and information literacy as a tool? HackingDisinfodemic – a Global Media and Information Literacy Youth...
COVID-19: Guterres warns against “vaccinationalism”
On 22 September, the UN Secretary-General told the UN General Assembly that the world “faces (its) own 1945 moment,” and declared that populism and...
COVID-19 : WHO calls for a collective European effort to tackle...
The World Health Organization (WHO) today warned that the COVID-19 situation in Europe is very serious.
“We have a very serious situation unfolding before us”,...
Leaving No Roma behind during a pandemic, and beyond: a UN...
The first time I met Roma people in the Western Balkan region was in 1999, while I was working in Montenegro. I had just...
Tourism: Europe is one of the hardest hit regions by COVID-19
Only 5% of the usual number of tourists have visited Paris this summer, one of the most popular destinations in Europe. Although the French...
UN poverty expert: “Promotion of equality must be our priority”
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Olivier De Schutter, began his three-year mandate in May 2020 in the midst...