sports

Nov. 21, 2019, Harlem Globaltrotter made its debut at the UN.
DGC Visitor Center

Legendary Harlem Globetrotters slam-dunk at the UN, with message that brings families, nations together

22 November 2019
SDGs

You don’t have to be from New York or even the United States to be a Harlem Globetrotter. Yet in the team's 93-year history, less than two dozen players have been born overseas, UN News learned, during an impromptu visit by the legendary basketball role models to UN Headquarters this week.

Peruvian and Venezuelan children have fun during the launch of “The Ball Has No Flags”. (August 2019)
IOM Peru/Karla Cervantes

Football is ‘refuge for those who have left everything’; UN initiative aims to bolster well-being of refugee, migrant children in Peru

27 August 2019
Migrants and Refugees

Sport brings people together “regardless of conditions or flags”, a senior United Nations official in Perú said on Tuesday referring to a new initiative launched over this past weekend to promote the well-being of children and youth in Lima’s refugee and migrant communities through football.