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Jean Gazarian at the commemoration of UNITAR’s 50th anniversary.
UN Photo/Amanda Voisard

FEATURE: Remembering Jean Gazarian, a witness to UN history

28 January 2016
UN Affairs

The United Nations mourns the loss of Jean Gazarian, a staff member whose six-decade career offered him a rare opportunity to witness the various moments and milestones along the path that saw a nascent 51-member Organization develop into the 193-strong world body it is today.

David Nabarro, the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe

INTERVIEW: world’s most difficult task – ensuring UN sustainable development agenda, says top adviser

27 January 2016
Health

“It’s about the toughest job any human being could be given” – that is how David Nabarro, the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, describes the task the United Nations chief entrusted to him last month.

Migrants wait in line to be registered in Berlin, Germany.
UNICEF/Ashley Gilbertson VII

INTERVIEW: resolving conflicts key to stemming global displacement, says new UN refugee chief

20 January 2016
Migrants and Refugees

Multiple conflicts have resulted in the massive displacement of men, women and children around the world in record numbers. Last year alone, more than one million refugees and migrants crossed the Mediterranean to Europe. And yet, the arrivals in Europe represent only a fraction of the world’s current 60 million refugees and displaced people – the highest level since the end of the Second World War.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein.
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

'The moment we do not support the human rights agenda we see it rolling back in many parts of the world' – Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein

18 January 2016
Human Rights

In September 2002, Zeid was elected the first President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. At that time, the Court was only a plan on paper, and over the next three years he oversaw the election of the first 18 judges, mediated selection of the Court’s first president, and led efforts to name the Court’s first prosecutor – laying out a functioning institution, despite considerable budgetary pressures and criticism of the Court from several leading nations.