UNRIC MAGAZINE June Edition 2009

27 May, Brussels: Screening of "The Young", a documentary by Giuseppe Porcaro from the European Youth Forum about youth participation at the UN. The screening is co-financed by The National Youth Councils of Belgium. Panel discussion after the film with the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, a UN representative and youth delegates. Organized with the support of UNRIC Brussels.

28 May, Brussels: "The Forgotten Refugees" -- 6.30 pm Polak Room, Residence Palace. UNRIC in partnership with WFP, UNHCR, IOM and ECHO will screen "The Forgotten Refugees", a documentary aired by the BBC in April, in which BBC Correspondent Amanda Burrell visits seven camps in south-east Nepal which house more than 100,000 ethnic Nepalese people - the largest concentration of refugees in the world. The screening will be followed by a debate with Ms. Rosella Pagliuchi-Lor, Head of Unit Donor Relations, UNHCR; Mr. Bernard Hemingway, Director of IOM; Ms. Maria Ralha, South Asia Team Leader at ECHO; and Mr. Gemmo Lodesani, WFP Director, EU Liaison Office.

29 May, Brussels: UNRIC Brussels' Director will participate in the Development Policy Forum (DPF) organized by Friends of Europe and the United Nations on climate change. This DPF roundtable, just ahead of the UN Climate Change Talks in Bonn on June 1-12, will look at the impact of climate change in developing countries, as well as the financial investment needed to address it. What can be done to ensure that both drought and flooding do not undo the development policy achievements of past years?
http://www.friendsofeurope.org/Events/tabid/452/EventType/EventView/
EventId/398/Aclimatechangeprotectionplanfortheworldspoor.aspx

5 June, Brussels: CINE-ONU: "HOME" by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Venue: Residence Palace, Polak room, 17.00. "Home" is scheduled for worldwide release on June 5, 2009. Yann Arthus-Bertrand takes viewers on a unique journey around the planet to contemplate and understand its workings and show us that the marks we leave behind are having a negative impact on its well-being.

6-7 June, Brussels: 'The Schuman Trophy' - an EU-UN Friendly Football Tournament.

12-13 June, Brussels: Developing Countries facing Global Warming: a Post-Kyoto Assessment - Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences organised in collaboration with the United Nations in Brussels. UNRIC Desk Officer for EU Benelux to chair the conference on the 13^th.http://www.kaowarsom.be/documents/global_warming_prog1.pdf

1-12 June, Bonn: UNRIC information stand at the Bonn Climate Change Talks, promoting the CoolPlanet2009 campaign.

3-5 June, Bonn: UNRIC information stand at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum on "Conflict Prevention in the Multimedia Age."

5 June, Bonn: Screening of the movie "HOME" by French director Yann Arthus-Bertrand in cooperation with the City of Bonn.

8 June, Berlin: Briefing on "the UN in the 21st century" for senior civil servants, organized by the Federal Academy of Public Administration.

9 June, Bonn: Briefing of high school students on UN Peacekeeping Operations.

15 June, Hamburg: Briefing on employment opportunities with the UN, organized by the University of Hamburg and the German UNA.

1 June, Athens: Start of the "ITS GETTING HOT - WHAT YOU'RE GONNA DO?"  Pan-Hellenic writing and arts competition on climate change under the aegis of the United Nations Regional Information Centre. (http://www.itsgettinghot.org)

Record number of delegates for the 8th Thessaloniki Model UN - 22-26 April

More than 450 university students from all over the world participated in ThessISMUN 2009, the University of Macedonia Model United Nations that took place in the city of Thessaloniki from 22-26 April 2009.

This year's ThessISMUN was dedicated to the Emeritus Professor Emmanuel Roukounas, an emblematic figure in the field of international law and human rights protection. The United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) supported ThessISMUN and named Prof. Roukounas Friend of the UN (FUN).

On the sidelines of the Model UN, UNRIC also organized a seminar on employment opportunities within the UN system.

12 June, Rome: Italian UNA, SIOI – Master in International Careers – UNRIC/ITA to hold a lecture on the UN public information activities in the context of peacekeeping operations (http://www.sioi.org/master_funzioni_intern.htm)

29 May, S. Pedro do Estoril: Conference on "Energy and Climate Change" co-organized by Agência Cascais Energia, GEOTA [environmental NGO] and UNRIC. Opening remarks by the Mayor of Cascais, UNRIC's Desk Officer for Portugal, President of GEOTA and CEO of Agência Cascais Energia