Note to Correspondents

The United Nations will celebrate the International Day of Peace on 16 September 2016.  The theme of this year’s observance is “The Sustainable Development Goals:  Building Blocks for Peace”.  In a video message released ahead of the Day, the Secretary-General said, “Peace is not just about putting weapons aside.  It is about building societies where people share the benefits of prosperity on a healthy planet.” Stressing that sustainable development was essential for lasting peace, he urged people everywhere to champion the Goals.

The United Nations Reham al-Farra Memorial Journalists Fellowship Programme will be held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from today through 30 September.

The International Day against Nuclear Tests will be observed on 31 August at United Nations Headquarters.

The United Nations Department of Public Information joins the American Library Association, Fox Searchlight Pictures and BazanED in a nationwide knowledge- and community-building initiative to examine the lasting effects of the injustices of the transatlantic slave trade.

An opening ceremony for an exhibit titled “When I grow up” will be held at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, 16 August in the Visitors’ Lobby.

A formal opening ceremony for the exhibition entitled “Refugees” will be held at 6 p.m. on Monday, 20 June, in the Visitors’ Lobby at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

A new hip-hop music video, entitled “Sustainable Development Goals: Improve Life All Around the Globe", was launched by the United Nations on 13 June to mark the 100-day countdown to the International Day of Peace.

The United Nations Department of Public Information will partner with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet) and Links, Inc. to organize its eighth annual Remember Slavery Global Student Videoconference on 13 May.

A formal opening ceremony for the exhibition “We Are What We Eat” will be held at 6 p.m. on Friday, 6 May, in the Visitors’ Lobby at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Author Primo Levi shared his vision for a more just and human world in 14 books, memoirs and essays that have been published together in three volumes in English titled The Complete Works of Primo Levi.