Capturing Change: Coral Reefs to Classrooms
To mark the 80th anniversary of the United Nations, the UN has launched a global photo exhibition entitled Shared Lives, Shared Future. The exhibition...
EU: UNHCR recommendations on asylum
As displacement globally remains at high levels, driven by conflict and persecution, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, calls on the Cypriot and Irish Presidencies of the Council of the...
In Pictures: first-ever UN General Assembly in London 80 years ago
Eighty years ago, the first-ever meeting of the United Nations General Assembly took place in the United Kingdom. On 10 January 1946, delegates gathered...
UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter – January 2026
monthly issue of the UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter featuring new UN websites, publications and information products.
Topic of the Month: UN Observances
UN Secretary-General: 2026 New Year’s Message
As we enter the new year, the world stands at a crossroads.
Chaos and uncertainty surround us.
Division. Violence. Climate breakdown. And systemic violations of international...
UNRIC Library Backgrounder: Appointment of the Secretary-General – Selected Online Resources
How is the Secretary-General of the United Nations selected and appointed? Here you can find a selection of online resources.
Hundreds of students participate in the UN’s 2025 #Back2School campaign
Over the past two months, about 750 students from schools in Belgium, the United Kingdom and Greece were visited by officials from UN entities...
Bangladesh, Sweden, and Ukraine unite through Grain from Ukraine to support...
The Government of Bangladesh, the Embassy of Ukraine, the Embassy of Sweden, and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on 3 December held...
UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter – December 2025
monthly issue of the UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter featuring new UN websites, publications and information products.
Topic of the month: Volunteers & Volunteering
UNRIC Library Backgrounder: Venezuela
Looking for information on the situation in Venezuela. Then check out this backgrounder.
Thórdís Kolbrún on the deported children of Ukraine
The war in Ukraine is having a devastating impact on the country’s 7.5 million children. As the war in Ukraine continues, humanitarian conditions for children...
AIDS: 1 in 9 people living with AIDS in Western Europe...
More than half of people living with HIV in Europe were diagnosed too late for optimal treatment in 2024 — a “critical testing failure,”...
EU and UNHCR art project: “Hope is the fire”
At a time when 117 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes, UNHCR and EU has launched a mural art project that...
Europe: violence against women, a public health issue
"Critically inadequate": this is how the World Health Organization (WHO) describes the health sector's response to violence against women and girls in Europe, "leaving...
COP30: countries pledge to fight false information
Several European countries are among 13 nations who have signed the first-ever Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change. The signatories pledge to fight back...





