First International Widows Day

By Europa Newswire | Published June 24, 2011

Europa Newswire Photo by Luiz Rampelotto The United Nations (UN) commemorated the first-ever International Widow’s Day today (23 June) with a panel discussion featuring UN Secretary-General’s wife Ban Soon-taek, Executive Director of UN Women Michele Bachelet, First Day of Gabon Sylvia Bongo Ondimba and President of the Loomba Foundation Cherie Blair. Addressing an audience of [...]

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Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie in Malta

By Europa Newswire | Published June 21, 2011

  Europa Newswire Lyster Barracks, a detention centre on Malta. Just ahead of World Refugee Day (20 June), UNHCR’s Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie came to meet asylum-seekers. These women recently fled the violence in Libya, most of them are from Somalia, Ethiopia or sub-Saharan Africa. They are waiting for their asylum-claims to be processed, and [...]

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World Environment Day: Goodwill Ambassador Edward Norton

By Europa Newswire | Published June 4, 2011

Europa Newswire Photos by Luiz Rampelotto Actor, conservationist and United Nations (UN) Environment Programme (UNEP) Goodwill Ambassador Edward Norton visited a variety of conservation and rural renewable energy projects in central Kenya. Norton, who was appointed the UN Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity last July, is an environmental conservation advocate and has often stressed the importance [...]

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Javier Perez de Cuellar: Former UN Secretary-General

By Europa Newswire | Published May 3, 2011

  Europa Newswire Photos by: Luiz Rampelotto United Nations, May 02 2011 Former UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar visits UN Headquarters where he met with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

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World Autism Awareness Day

By Europa Newswire | Published April 2, 2011

  Europa Newswire Photo: Luiz Rampelotto United Nations, April 01 2011 The United Nations celebrates its fourth annual World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) this Saturday, 2 April, with the aim of rising awareness about a disorder affecting millions of individuals around the world at their early developmental age. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a recorded statement [...]

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Miss America 2011

By Europa Newswire | Published January 23, 2011

Europa Newswire Photo: Luiz Rampelotto On January 15,  Miss Nebraska 2010 Teresa Scanlan from Gering, Nebraska was crowned Miss America 2011 at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas where the 90th Anniversary of the Miss America Pageant presented by DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse was broadcast live. Teresa’s triumphant walk across the stage [...]

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UNICEF Marks 20 Years of the Convention of the Rights of the Child

By Europa Newswire | Published November 20, 2009

Europa Newswire Photo By: Luiz Rampelotto November 20, 2009 By Amy Lieberman Grace Akallo, a former child soldier, admits it can be difficult to publicly discuss her abduction and torture by the Lord’s Resistance Army, a violent guerrilla group based in northern Uganda. But the 29-year-old graduate student at Clark University, in Worcester, Mass., says [...]

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Maria Sharapova Scholarships

By Europa Newswire | Published November 17, 2009

Europa Newswire. Photo by: Luiz Rampelotto. Geneva/Minsk/New York, 17 November 2009 —The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) marked International Students Day by awarding five-year university scholarships to three students in Belarus in two separate ceremonies. The scholarships are funded by tennis champion Maria Sharapova as part of a wider UNDP effort to help overcome the [...]

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UNIFEM Launches Anti-Violence Campaign, Without Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman

By Europa Newswire | Published November 6, 2009

Europa Newswire November 6, 2009  By Amy Lieberman  Nicole Kidman says “no” to domestic violence, but also said “no” to participating in the launch of an anti-violence campaign in Kenya today, citing a “seasonal flu” for keeping her at home.   Kidman, goodwill ambassador of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, was slated to [...]

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UN Day 2009 – Lang Lang, China

By Europa Newswire | Published October 24, 2009

  EUROPA NEWSWIRE. Photo by: Luiz Rampelotto. Appearing on behalf of Music Unites. Heralded as the “hottest artist on the classical music planet” by the New York Times,27-year-old Lang Lang has played sold-out recitals and concerts in every major city in the world and is the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, [...]

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