Volunteers: real-life heroes in the time of COVID-19
At the heart of the Covid-19 pandemic, volunteers have demonstrated an exceptional display of solidarity across the world. Responding to calls for help from...
Guterres calls for a strong coalition to get to net zero...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for bold new commitments on climate action and for the European Union to demonstrate leadership by further reducing its emissions.
In a major...
Finland first in Europe to use dogs to detect Covid-19
Finland’s Helsinki-Vantaa airport has started using detection dogs to sniff out passengers possibly infected with the coronavirus. Dogs are providing a cheap, fast and...
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...
#FemalePleasure Screening and Panel Discussion
On 25 November, Ciné-ONU - in partnership with UN Women, UNFPA, and the European Commission - hosted an online screening of the award-winning film #FemalePleasure, to mark...
Deliv’rue: delivering meals “at home” for homeless people
In Montpellier, in the south of France, the delivery of hot meals by bicycle is no longer a service reserved for those with money...
Sexual violence: the evil that persists
Their names are Charlotte, Emma and Marie. They are all three students and they all have one thing in common: they have been victims...
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: children’s lives turned upside down by pandemic
Children are not the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. But they risk being among its biggest victims. Fears of catching and transmitting the virus,...
TV makes a difference during the pandemic
Since the invention of the first set in 1927, television has offered its viewers a fine line between truth, optimism and reality. With soaring...
Guterres urges EU to cut emissions by 55% by 2030
UN Secretary-General António Guterres today urged the European Union to cut CO2 emissions by 55% or more by 2030.
In remarks on climate action to...
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...
Ciné-ONU – Online screening of ‘#Female Pleasure’
To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the United Nations and the European Commission present: #Female Pleasure
How to Participate...
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...
UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter: November 2020
monthly issue of the UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter featuring new UN websites and publications, with a special focus on COVID-19 information