DRC / GOMA-BAN KI MOON & JIM YON KIM
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon earlier today together with Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank visited Goma in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. MONUSCO
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon earlier today together with Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank visited Goma in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. MONUSCO
Earlier today Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In Kinshasa, he met with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, as part of a first joint UN/World Bank visit. They both held meetings with DRC President Joseph Kabila, and Government ministers. MONUSCO
United Kingdom's Prime Minister David Cameron, one of the Co-Chairs of the Secretary-General's High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, briefs journalists on the steps to take after the U.N. Millennium Development Goals expire in 2015. UNTV
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon tells the first meeting of the open working group on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), that "despite important progress in improving peoples' well-being, more than one billion people still live in absolute poverty." UNTV
A new report released today (14 November) finds that additional investments in family planning would save developing countries $11.3 billion a year. UNFPA
A UN spokesman reported today (21 August) that the World Humanitarian Day 2012 campaign made social media history by sharing more than one billion messages by 19 August, encouraging people to do something good for someone else. UNTV, OCHA
Japanese peacekeepers are volunteering at an orphanage that has been supporting street children since 2007 hoping to protect and reintegrate the children by providing physical, social and psychosocial guidance. UNMISS
At the opening of the High Level Meeting on “Happiness and Well-Being: Defining A New Economic Paradigm” the Prime Minister of Bhutan, Jigme Thinley, said that “the GDP led development model that compels boundless growth on a planet with limited resources no longer makes economic sense” and “it is the cause of our irresponsible, immoral [...]
Prime Minister of Bhutan Jigme Thinley said today that due to the growing frequency of natural and man made calamities, the world is now “more amenable” to the concept of Gross National Happiness, an indicator that measures quality of life as opposed to economic activity to determine a nation’s well-being. UNTV
Violence, sexual abuse and violations of rights are a daily routine in the lives of many women in Hargeisa, Somalia. Handa is one of the thousands of Somali women who were sexually abused, but one of the very few who chose to report it. Today is International Women’s Day. OCHA