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This September, we highlight the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Earlier this year, UNCTAD rebranded to UN Trade and Development, as part of its 60th anniversary celebration (UNCTAD60). At a time where the global population is faced with...
Have you ever wondered who is behind the Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets, known as TIR Convention? And which UN Entity was able to negotiate and adopt the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation...
Ambassador Tatiana Molcean of Moldova was appointed Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) on the 26 July 2023, where she has led with purpose since her term began in September 2023. Ms. Molcean has 20 years of experience in...
The United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) follows and captures the work and achievements of the United Nations and its agencies and features them on postage stamps. United Nations stamps are considered as chronological markers of the organization’s efforts to...
What do Marie Curie, Mother Teresa, Gandhi and Kofi Annan have in common? The portrait of each of these personalities appears on a stamp issued by the United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA). By issuing stamps designed by international artists, the UNPA, which is...
Lucía Ruiz Rosendo’s main line of research is interpreting in conflict zones and the history of interpreting, with a particular focus on armed conflicts. She has recently co-edited Interpreting Conflict. A Comparative Framework (Palgrave 2021), Interpreter Training in...
The United Nations was created in the aftermath of the Second World War to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind”. Since then, wars have not ceased, causing death and injury around...
Abena Ampofoa Asare is an Associate Professor of Modern African Affairs & History at Stony Brook University, New York. As an author of the book Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana, and expert on African social and political progress, she...
Article 101.3 of the UN Charter of 1945 states that “the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff and in the determination of the conditions of service shall be the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.”...
Katrina Campbell currently serves as Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer for The International Rescue Committee (IRC), a recipient of UN funding. She is a former UN Secretariat Ethics Officer, Ethics Adviser for UNFPA, and consultant to several other UN organizations...
