The United Nations today started offering its first visitors’ tours of UN headquarters in New York tailored specifically to children. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and actress Monique Coleman, a UN Goodwill Ambassador, attended the launch. UNTV
German football star Ballack was on a 3-day fact-finding mission in South Africa this weekend to learn about how HIV impacts lives. UNAIDS
The UN Security Council opened its doors last weekend for French director Bertrand Tavernier to shoot a scene on the diplomatic wrangling preceding the Iraq war for his upcoming feature film “Quai D’Orsay”, starring Thierry Lermitte as former French foreign minister Dominique de Villepin. UNTV
During decades of civil war, Somali journalists were the eyes and the ears of the world. But over the years they have become targets, making Somalia one of the world’s most dangerous places for media workers. AU-UN IST
UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie travelled to the Jordan-Syria border overnight to meet frightened and exhausted Syrian refugees who had just completed the perilous crossing to safety in Jordan. UNHCR
On her recent tour of South America, international pop star Lady Gaga stopped by a school on the outskirts of Lima for her first UNICEF field visit. UNICEF
On a visit to South Africa, actor and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom talked with young people this weekend about issues like gang violence and sexual exploitation. UNICEF
UNAIDS has announced the appointment of Nobel peace prize winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar as a Global Advocate for Zero Discrimination. UNAIDS
The UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Mutuma Ruteere briefed reporters on the findings of a report on racism on the internet and ways to combat it. UNTV
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights today (30 October) condemned the latest attacks on journalists in Somalia, where more media workers are killed than anywhere else in the world besides Syria. CH UNTV