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UNICEF and Hungary announce agreement in principle to establish new UNICEF Global Services Centre in Budapest NEW YORK/BUDAPEST, 10 February 2015 – The Government of Hungary and UNICEF announced today that they have agreed in principle to establish UNICEF’s first-ever Global Shared Services Centre in Budapest. The new centre will conduct a broad range of UNICEF’s financial and human resources operations worldwide, enabling the children’s organization to realize greater efficiencies and cost savings.
UN News – International Court of Justice dismisses genocide claims by Croatia and Serbia The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the main judicial body of the United Nations, today rejected claims made by Croatia and Serbia accusing each other of committing genocide during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, a decision that is “without appeal” and binding.
UN highlights power of social media in modern diplomacy during day-long New York event The United Nations has held its first ever Social Media Day at its New York Headquarters on Friday, in an event featuring social media professionals, digital diplomacy practitioners and academics who were sharing their experiences, discussing trends and proving insights into their work. The United Nations is present on almost all social media platforms (including Tumblr), and indeed considers social media so important as to dedicate a whole day of events to it.
Hey Everybody! Am I the only one disturbed by the new changes of Tumblr? I am yet to discover any developments, while I found quite a few failures already. For one thing, please view the above pic’s source here, as Tumblr doesn’t let me link it the usual way anymore… *sighs* Anyway, believe it or not, one twelfth of the year has already passed so it’s time to review all those goals for 2015! I myself, still being inspired and energized by London, was busy this week with working on different plans. I will share some of them here later!…
eretzyisrael: Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. January 27 marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated this day as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD), an annual day of commemoration to honor the victims of the Nazi era. From 1940 to 1945, more than 1.1 million men, women and children were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp. 90% of them were Jews. All were innocent. Today, we remember Never Again. Click here to learn about The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme.
UN Secretary General: 2015 to be challenging, but also promising Secretary General Ban Ki-moon briefed the UN General Assembly about this year’s priorities for the UN on Thursday. Click the picture to read the whole speech and more.
un-dpa: The Security Council met 263 times, an increase of 36 per cent over the previous year. This is just one of the findings in the 2014 Highlights of Security Council Practice report produced by the Security Council Practices and Charter Research Branch in the Security Council Affairs Division of DPA. Full report at http://www.un.org/en/sc/inc/pages/pdf/highlights/2014.pdf
Yes, you read it right. I did not make a mistake here, this is a roundup of roundups in the topic of world affairs. I picked my favorites, I hope you’ll enjoy! The stories of 2014 A great picture walk through the stories of 2014 by Reuters. 2014 in Photos Another picture roundup. This one’s from the United Nations’ official Flickr. 2014: A look back at some of the year’s major developments The UN News Centre also made this great roundup of major developments of 2014. 7 awful conflicts that were under-reported in 2014 I try to feature those stories…
UN Security Council action on Palestinian statehood blocked Falling short of the required number of positive votes and faced with a veto from one of its permanent members, the United Nations Security Council today failed to adopt a draft resolution that would have affirmed the “urgent need” to reach within 12 months a peaceful solution to the situation in the Middle East and would have paved the way to a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Happy Sunday everybody, and welcome to the last Sunday Smack of 2014! This is going to be sort of a holiday edition, since most of my favorite bloggers were off this week too. I am still planning at least one end of the year post, but in the meantime, here’s what I’ve read this week. Thawing of US-Cuba Relations: What to Expect Next? A really great overview of what’s possible to come in the bilateral and international context of the new US-Cuba policy. Why 2015 Will Be a Huge Year for Humanity 2015 indeed will be a very exciting year for…
