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.
The United Nations Department of Public Information will host a briefing to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on 14 April, on “The Musical Journey of the African Diaspora”, in Conference Room 11 at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The 2016 observance of World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD), 2 April, at the United Nations will look ahead to 2030 and reflect on the new Sustainable Development Goals and their implications for improving the lives of people with autism.
The Department of Public Information will partner with the National Parks Service (NPS) to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the discovery of the African Burial Ground, where the remains of former slaves were recovered in 1991.