UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter – February 2022
monthly issue of the UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter featuring new UN websites and publications, with a special focus on COVID-19 information
UNRIC Library Backgrounder: Information Integrity – Selected Online Resources on Information...
How to combat misinformation - Here you can find selected online resources on what the UN in doing against misinformation, COVID-10 misinformation, disinformation and hate speech
Zero Tolerance: Ending FGM
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the power of the global community in responding to a life-threatening humanitarian issue. Yet for many activists campaigning to...
The Glass Quilt
For glassmakers across Ireland, coronavirus restrictions created a great sense of isolation, loneliness, fear and uncertainty. Cut off from each other and their creative...
WHO and Viamo provide critical access to COVID-19 information to the...
WHO is working with Viamo, a global social enterprise improving lives via mobile, to provide WHO’s COVID-19 information, including vaccines, to the hardest to reach...
Changing Tides: Women in Scottish Aquaculture
“The intention was to build a grassroots network of peer-to-peer support for women, by women, operating in what is still, numerically at least, a...
UN-Habitat wallpaper for your computer or mobile phone
Start 2022 with an inspirational and colourful vision of our cities and communities.
Half of the world’s population now live in cities, and this is...
UN announces Transitional Engagement Framework (TEF) for Afghanistan to save lives,...
Kabul, Geneva, New York, 26 January 2022 – The UN team in Afghanistan has launched its One-UN Transitional Engagement Framework (TEF) to assist Afghans...
2021 floods: UN researchers aim to better prepare for climate risks
In July 2021, several European countries including Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands were affected by catastrophic floods, causing deaths and widespread damage. Such extreme...
‘Moving Together’ for more Sustainability
UN in Bonn cooperates
with Beethoven Orchester Bonn and Theater Bonn
The United Nations in Bonn and the City of Bonn with its two cultural...
COVID-19: How the Omicron variant affects Europe?
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is now present in 128 countries and is expected to affect more than 50% of the population in the...
COVID-19, children and vaccines: Dr Sorel answers your questions
Dr Océane Sorel, a French specialist in virology and immunology, answers your questions about COVID-19, vaccines and children aged 5 to 11 years old.
Dr...
UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter – January 2022
monthly issue of the UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter featuring new UN websites and publications, with a special focus on COVID-19 information
WHO: 50% of the population in Europe could be infected by...
The World Health Organization (WHO) says health systems in many countries have come under "intense pressure" from the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Over 50%...
David Sassoli embodied and defended the values of the UN
The UN in Brussels is extremely saddened to learn of the passing of the President of the European Parliament David Sassoli.
David Sassoli embodied and...