Secretary-General António Guterres led tributes from across the UN on Tuesday to the legendary singer, entertainer, and civil rights activist, Harry Belafonte, who has died, aged 96.
Globally, enough food is produced to feed the world’s seven billion people, and yet 811 million still go to bed hungry each night.
Award-winning chef and TV personality Andrew Zimmern was recently named a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), expanding his global advocacy to fight hunger and food waste around the world.
British actor Gugu Mbatha-Raw was on Wednesday appointed a global Goodwill Ambassador with the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.
A track and field athlete from South Sudan who was forced to flee conflict as a child was on Tuesday named a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.
A recap of Friday's stories: Milestone of 1,000 Ebola survivors counted in DR Congo; UN concerned over violent anti-government protests in Iraq and elsewhere; Oscar-nominated star named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador; Parties to Gothenburg Protocol for cleaner air, plan treaty implementation; UN scientific experts advise on elimination of hazardous chemicals.
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), announced on Monday that the actor, director, producer and philanthropist Ben Stiller, is to become its latest Goodwill Ambassador, as he issued an appeal for action on behalf of those forced to flee their homes around the world.
There’s never been a time when the pollinating power of the lowly honey bee has been more important to the planet than now.
That’s the view of some diplomats at UN Headquarters in New York who are making the case for giving bees their own official international day.
Ambassador Darja Bavdaz Kuret of Slovenia, argues that we need bees to cope with many of the global challenges laid out in the Sustainable Development Goals, such as hunger and biodiversity.
Yet, she says they are under threat like never before, due to climate change and pesticides.
New UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador will advocate for young refugees
A teenage refugee from Syria will use her role as Goodwill Ambassador with the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, to urge world leaders to stand with children uprooted by war.
Muzoon Almellehan, 19, is the youngest person and the first official refugee, ever to be appointed to the position.
Global displacement reached a record high last year, with more than 65 million people forced to flee their homes due to war, violence and persecution.
Road safety is “a basic human right for children,” according to the Malaysian-born actress and UN Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador, Michelle Yeoh.
Some 500 children around the world die each day on dangerous roads and thousands more are injured.