Tag: United Nations
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Volunteering Matters
United Nations Volunteers have been working together with the internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter & UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo in a campaign to show the world why volunteering matters: This years International Volunteer Day is 5 December – a critical moment not only for the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme but also for volunteering worldwide. The…
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Happy New International Year of the Forests
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests. The Amazon Rain Forest Basin is the home to our largest rainforest on Earth. It represents over half of the planets remaining rainforests. The basin is roughly the size of the forty-eight contiguous United States. It covers some 40% of the South…