UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter: October 2020
monthly issue of the UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter featuring new UN websites and publications, with a special focus on COVID-19 information
Cine-ONU highlights ‘resignation syndrome’ to mark World Mental Health Day
World Mental Health Day on 10 October, and the whole of October, is an important time to draw attention to various forms of mental illness. Refugees and asylum seekers, many of whom...
WFP wins Nobel Peace Prize for 2020
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced today that the World Food Programme will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020.
The World Food Programme (WFP) is awarded...
HackingDisinfodemic
What can youth do to counter disinfodemic, using media and information literacy as a tool? HackingDisinfodemic – a Global Media and Information Literacy Youth...
The end of the road for the world´s plastic
The only book ever published about the Bay of Kolgrafarvíkwas is called ‘The End of the Road’, which gives you a good idea about its isolation in a remote...
Challenge Campus 2030 – Edition 2
Act today and transform the campuses of tomorrow by joining Challenge Campus 2030, organised by the United Nations, l'Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (Francophone University...
The Great Auk: A lesson in history on biological diversity
As world leaders are meeting at the UN General Assembly to discuss “urgent action on biodiversity” on 30 September 2020, a new study shows how the Great...
Greater Manchester goes Greener
Green recovery, building back better and young people as agents of change were the focus of a virtual panel discussion on the 24th September with...
Ciné-ONU Brussels, Vienna and Geneva present: Wake Up On Mars
New opportunity to watch the film and join the panel discussion on 7 October.
You can participate in the online screening in two simple steps:
Step...
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...
250 years needed to bridge the pay gap
At the current speed, it will take more than two hundred and fifty years until women and men receive equal pay. Today, 25 years...
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”,...
Cyberbullying: What is it and how to stop it
UNICEF has teamed up with social media platforms to start a global campaign against Cyberbullying. UNICEF has, with the help of young people around the...
United Nations General Assembly opens on 15 September 2020
The General Assembly of the United Nations opens its seventy-fifth session on Tuesday, 15 September, at 21:00 CET, immediately following the conclusion of the...
#SkillsinAction Photo Competition
Are you an amateur or professional photographer with an interest in youth skills? Don’t miss your chance to enter the UNESCO-UNEVOC #SkillsinAction Photo Competition!
Am...