Contest for Mass Media with the Theme “Tuberculosis and Human Fates” is Underway 02 February 2010 | UNDP
A contest for the best coverage of the topic “Tuberculosis and Human Fates” in the national mass media is conducted in the frameworks of the information campaign of GFATM’s grant “Support to the National Programme “Tuberculosis” in the Republic of Belarus” implemented by UNDP in collaboration with the Ministry of Health.
Candles in memory of Holocaust victims lit in Minsk 28 January 2010
Yesterday, the United Nations Office in Belarus together with public association “The National Holocaust Foundation” and the Union of Belarusian Jewish Communities held a commemorative evening event dedicated to International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 65 years ago Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz–Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.
UNDP and 4 districts of the Gomel region sign a Memorandum of Understanding 18 December 2009 | UNDP
On December 17, Gomel hosted the ceremonial signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between UNDP and representatives of local authorities of the four districts of the Gomel region (the Buda–Koshelevo, Vetka, Zhitkovichi and Khoiniki districts) that participate in the joint EU/UNDP project “Area Based Development of the Chernobyl–Affected Areas of Belarus”.
Educational event “Climate is changing. And You?” took place in Minsk Environmental School ¹ 19 17 December 2009 | UNDP
In the framework of EC/UNDP project “Building capacity for Strategic environmental assessment and implementation of environmental conventions in Belarus” a PR action “Climate is changing. And You?” has been conducted in Minsk Environmental School ¹ 19. This action confined to Copenhagen UN summit on climate change and the output of the project’s “dynamic” brochure aimed to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions in atmosphere.
Press-Conference on the International Migrants Day to be held in Minsk 16 December 2009
The Office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Belarus in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior of the Republicof Belarus and the State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus is organizing a press–conference on the occasion of the International Migrants Day. The press–conference will be held at the concert hall “Minsk” (Minsk, Oktyabrskaya Str., 5, room 402) on December 18, 2009 at 11 a.m.
Message of the Secretary-General on the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust 27 January 2010
The theme of this year’s commemoration at UN offices around the world is the legacy of survival. Countless men, women and children suffered the horrors of the ghettos and Nazi death camps, yet somehow survived. All of them carry a crucial message for all of us. A message about the triumph of the human spirit. A living testament that tyranny, though it may rise, will surely not prevail. Survivors also play a vital role in keeping the lessons of the Holocaust alive for future generations.
ILO Global Employment Trends 2010 27 January 2010 | ILO
GENEVA(ILO News) – The number of jobless worldwide reached nearly 212 million in 2009 following an unprecedented increase of 34 million compared to 2007, on the eve of the global crisis, the International Labour Office (ILO) said in its annual Global Employment Trends report. Based on IMF economic forecasts, the ILO estimates that global unemployment is likely to remain high through 2010. In the Developed Economies and European Union unemployment is projected to increase by an additional 3 million people in 2010, while it will stabilize at present levels, or decline only slightly, in other regions.
Ban Ki-moon: Haiti is not Alone 19 January 2010
The disaster in Haiti shows once again something that we, as human beings, have always known: that even amid the worst devastation, there is always hope. I saw that for myself this week in Port au Prince. The UN suffered its single greatest loss in history. Our headquarters in the Haitian capital was a mass of crushed concrete and tangled steel. How could anyone survive, I thought? Yet moments after I departed, with a heavy heart, rescue teams pulled out a survivor – alive, after five days, buried, without food or water. I think of it as a small miracle, a sign of hope.Disasters such as that in Haiti remind us of the fragility of life, but they also reaffirm our strength. We have seen horrific images on television: collapsed buildings, bodies in the streets, people in dire need of food, water and shelter.
In Haiti, Secretary-General vows support for quake victims 17 January 2010
The UN “will continue to stand behind the Haitian people,” Mr. Ban said in Port–au–Prince, the city hardest hit by the 12 January tremors, which are believed to have impacted one third of Haiti's 9 million people. Addressing reporters in the capital, the Secretary–General outlined three top priorities.Touching down in the capital of Haiti, which was devastated by this week's catastrophic earthquake, today, Secretary–General Ban Ki–moon today pledged the United Nations' support for the victims of the disaster.
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