UNICEF, in partnership with Libraries Without Borders, is sending a library of 100 books in French and Creole to vulnerable neighborhoods in Haiti to promote the emotional, cognitive and social development of children and adolescents. UNICEF
Some 1.7 million more teachers are needed to achieve universal primary education by 2015, the second of the eight anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals, the heads of various United Nations agencies said today in a joint statement marking World Teachers’ Day. UNTV / FILE
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (19 September) told reporters he would use the upcoming high-level General Assembly session to personally press more than 120 world leaders to act on Syria. UNTV
UNICEF and AVSI (Association of Volunteers for International Service) have established single sex youth discussion groups throughout the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo to help reduce violent behaviour and gender inequalities. UNICEF
Two young women from an IDP camp learn how to sew and are now working as trainees for one of the top fashion designers in Haiti. It’s part of a program aimed to help displaced women unable to support themselves and their family. MINUSTAH
The UN Population Fund supported the recent opening of the 19th Youth Friendly Reproduction Health Centre in Georgia designed to meet the needs of young people all across the country. A UN high-level meeting on youth will take place in New York on Monday (25 July). UNFPA
Ten detainees of Cap Haïtien prison in northern Haiti were chosen to be trained to teach reading and writing so that they may be able to pass on these skills to their fellow inmates. MINUSTAH
More than six thousand children in Gaza, attending Summer Games organized by the UN Relief and Works Agency, smash their own world record for the number of kites flown simultaneously. UNRWA