“Passion and story-telling” are two of the key ingredients to become a wine expert according to Michelle Gueydan, a certified sommelier based in New Orleans in the United States. Ms. Gueydan transitioned from politics to event management and then became one of the minority of female sommeliers currently working in the US.
A woman chef in New Orleans in the United States has been telling UN News how the restaurant business and cooking over a hot stove, has been a lifelong ‘labor of love’ for her.
Roseann Rostoker decided she wanted to be a chef at age 14 and ultimately opened her own restaurant nine years ago.
What does a crawfish farmer have in common with a taxidermist, or a voodoo priestess, or a long-haul heavy-load truck driver….?
The answer, according to the Director of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) office for the United States, is a quiet dignity and pride in their jobs.
The ILO is currently undertaking a photography project called “Dignity at Work: The American Experience”, which is documenting the jobs of hundreds of American workers in around 100 cities across the United States.
The UN is committed to fighting corruption, a phenomenon that affects all countries in one way or another, through the work of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The United Nations Convention against Corruption is the only legally binding universal anti-corruption instrument, and a unique tool for developing a comprehensive response to a global problem: The vast majority of United Nations Member States are parties to the Convention.
One of the major challenges in eradicating the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the threat from numerous armed groups preventing health teams from reaching at-risk communities.
In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, Dr. Michel Yao from the World Health Organization explains how the agency is deploying helicopters to remote areas, as it adapts to the volatile situation.
A year has now passed since the Government of Yemen and Houthi rebels met in Sweden for UN-sponsored talks, aimed at ending a brutal conflict that has generated the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Supporting Mauritania’s efforts to protect its eastern border from jihadists and other destabilizing elements is just one aspect of the UN’s work in this “quiet” corner of North Africa.
That’s according to UN Resident Coordinator for Mauritania, Anthony Ohemeng-Boamah, who oversees the Organization’s operations to help the country realize sustainable development, economic growth and other goals.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres took questions from around the world alongside youth activist Marie Christina Kolo from Madagascar during the on-going COP25 climate conference on Thursday.
The Facebook Live event was hosted by Karin Orantes from our UN Social Media team.
Every day, 33,000 girls under the age of 18 are married, often against their will and one in three women will face sexual violence.
Ending these scourges is the aim of the 16 Days Against Violence campaign, led by the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, which ended on Tuesday 10 December, Human Rights Day.
An American teenager is using his voice to raise awareness of how climate change is having an impact on his small indigenous village of Akiak, Alaska.
Carl Smith, 17, reports that warmer winters mean residents are finding it hard to carry out traditional subsistence activities such as hunting caribou, while heat spells make it difficult to collect cloudberries and salmonberries in summer.
