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The Voyager Golden Record: A reminder that we are all connected
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The Voyager Golden Record shot into space in 1977 with a message from humanity to the cosmos – and decades later, it stands as a reminder that we are all connected. The United Nations displays a replica of the Golden...
International Women’s Day – UN Chief (8 March 2020)
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Video message by H.E. Mr. António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General on International Women's Day. Gender equality is fundamentally a question of power. Transforming the balance of power is essential, not o...
Stakes High for UN Climate Change Conference (COP25)
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Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Inger Andersen, lays out what's at stake for the world ahead of the upcoming COP25 climate change conference taking place in Madrid, from 2 December. #Climate...
The People’s Seat: Speak up on climate change #TakeYourSeat
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The UN is launching a new seat – The People's Seat – that will give everyone a seat at the table at COP24, the UN Climate Change Conference happening this December. The People’s Seat will allow peopleto “virtually si...
The Race To Preserve History
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The United Nations observes World Day of Audiovisual Heritage on October 27th. During the hot 2018 summer in New York Headquarters, a team of archivists worked around the clock to protect almost 40,000 records. Mor...
Service and Sacrifice: Cameroonian peacekeeper empowering women and girls
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Gladys Ngwepekeum Nkeh is a United Nations Police (UNPOL) officer from Cameroon, working with the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic. She partners with local communities in Bangui to ensure secur...