"SPORTS"

Football legend Didier Drogba was today announced as the World Health Organization's Goodwill Ambassador for Sport and Health. Drogba, from Côte d’Ivoire, will support WHO to promote the Organization’s guidance on the benefits of physical activity and other healthy lifestyles, and highlight the value of sports, particularly for youth. WHO

Youth leaders took centre stage in the fight to feed the world by raising awareness, inspiring action and identifying solutions at the World Food Forum, a youth-led movement whose first flagship event ended on Tuesday. FAO

The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) recently held an event marking the clearing and destruction of some 41 explosive ordnances in Ngulere, South Sudan, by holding a football match for community members on the newly decontaminated land. UNMISS

Dominique Hasler, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Education, and Sport of the Principality of Liechtenstein, addresses the general debate of the 76th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 21-27 September 2021).

As part of its observances for the International Day of Peace, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) teamed up with the Intercommunity Peace Initiative and the South Sudan Football Association to host friendly football matches in a bid to bring together young people from different communities in the spirit of peace and unity. UNMISS

Parfait Hakizimana has endured tragedy, brutal violence and conflict. A refugee in Rwanda, he found strength, hope and courage through sports and his years of training as a professional taekwondo athlete took him all the way to the world stage - the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. UNHCR

Families of the refugee athletes who come from Kenya’s Kakuma settlement sent messages of hope and well wishes as the IOC Refugee Olympic Team competes at Tokyo 2020. UNHCR

Second United Nations High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States on countering and preventing terrorism in the age of transformative technologies with the overall theme of “Countering and Preventing Terrorism in the Age of Transformative Technologies: Addressing the Challenges of the New Decade.”

Second United Nations High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States on countering and preventing terrorism in the age of transformative technologies with the overall theme of “Countering and Preventing Terrorism in the Age of Transformative Technologies: Addressing the Challenges of the New Decade.”

Second United Nations High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States on countering and preventing terrorism in the age of transformative technologies with the overall theme of “Countering and Preventing Terrorism in the Age of Transformative Technologies: Addressing the Challenges of the New Decade.”