The celebration to mark the thirty-year anniversary of Bosnia and Herzegovina's accession to the United Nations began last week with a formal programme at the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo and continued with the second edition of the UN's #ImagineChange Festival at the Square of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Trg BiH).
“The weather here’s a lot drier for longer these days,” says Althea Spencer, the treasurer of the Mount Airy Farmers group, which is based in Northern Clarendon. “If you don’t have water, it makes no sense to plant seeds because they will just die.”
Tongogara Refugee Camp (TRC), located in Chipinge District of Zimbabwe has become a safe haven where nationalities from different countries in Africa have learned to live together and exchange their diverse life experiences. It is a space where tolerating the next person’s way of living is the norm, while also adapting to a different setting away from home.
On May 8, 2022, ahead of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed visited Soubré, the capital of the Nawa region in the southwest of Côte d'Ivoire: one of the country’s most important cocoa-producing regions.
For 19-year-old Christa Salam, being a youth advocate leader is a dream role. In her hometown of Jacintoville, southern Belize, Christa leads a youth group of 10 boys and girls, sharing her passion for her community and the environment with the next generation.
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020, the United Nations Country Team in the UAE quickly rose to the challenge, working together with the International Humanitarian City (IHC) in Dubai to provide immediate support and emergency relief to communities affected by the crisis all over the world.
The severe drought has impacted the lives of more than three million people in Somali Region of Ethiopia. Women have lost their livelihoods and have been forced to move to places where they can receive humanitarian assistance from local people, government and humanitarian organizations.
