At The UN, Every Day Is Staff Day
Get the latest update on the @UN response to the #Syria Crisis https://t.co/ZOqtBtd8Cq pic.twitter.com/ataMk2mV5w
— UN Vienna (@UN_Vienna) 27. Oktober 2016
Check out our #flickr gallery from the #UNStaffDay celebrations @UN_Vienna https://t.co/ga6ZixqDc3 pic.twitter.com/3yICtwZPHI
— UN Vienna (@UN_Vienna) 27. Oktober 2016
Want to know more about the @UN’s work with #refugees and #migrants? Check out our page: https://t.co/75r3NMxzqD pic.twitter.com/NZH2yerqyI
— UN Vienna (@UN_Vienna) 26. Oktober 2016
Did you know that we also tweet in German, Hungarian, Slovak and Slovene? Follow us @UNO_Wien @ENSZ_Becs @OSN_Vieden @ZN_Dunaj !
— UN Vienna (@UN_Vienna) 26. Oktober 2016
I don’t like the idea of the US government abstaining on a UN resolution critical of duly enacted (even if misguided) US policy.
— David Bosco (@multilateralist) 26. Oktober 2016
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.@UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expresses his gratitude to UN staff serving around the world. #UNStaffDay pic.twitter.com/Sliwa3uFvO
— UN Geneva (@UNGeneva) 25. Oktober 2016
At the UN, every day is staff day. Please read my Huffington Post blog …
There is so much more to the United Nations here in Vienna than fountains and flagpoles.Venture down the hallways and corridors of the Vienna International Centre (VIC), on any given day, and you will find evidence of animated activity.From ardent discussions in the VIC’s multitude of meeting rooms, to the quieter, more earnest conversations in the cosy corners and anterooms of this sprawling UN hub – one of four along with New York, Geneva and Nairobi.The sweep of those activities is stunning. Human trafficking, nuclear technology, peaceful uses of space, migrants, industrial development and disarmament are just some examples of the labours undertaken in Vienna by its more than 4,000 staff in numerous international organisations.Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan saw Vienna’s role as engaging in the fight against uncivil society. This is a telling insight, but Vienna is much more. Innovation and creativity lie at the heart of this hub; a rich, golden seam running through all of the efforts at the imposing global coalface.Illustrations are not hard to find. When you think of the International Atomic Energy Agency, safe, secure, and peaceful nuclear technology is a clear goal, but so is child nutrition, confronting the Zika virus and helping countries control animal disease.Look at the material floating out of the Office for Outer Space Affairs and you discover discussions on satellite navigation and meteorology jostling with a global children’s art competition on looking at the stars.Glance at the UN Industrial Development Organization front page and it teams with support for hydro-electric stations, protecting the ozone layer and building corporate responsibility. And so it goes.When combined these efforts form a weighty contribution to making the world more civil, more peaceful, as well as the much wider work on every aspect of the sustainable development goals and Agenda 2030. Vienna may sit in middle Europe; but, it is quite literally plugged into the rest of the world.Yet this dialogue with discovery is not the end of the line. Essential discussion precedes effective delivery. The real worth of Vienna—the true currency of this vibrant UN hub—is not in its meetings, conferences, or consultations, it is in the help offered around the world to those most in need.The UN Office on Drugs and Crime, for example, operates in dozens of countries globally. Many of these offices are in complex and challenging places; locations where hardship is a grim daily reality.Staff in these offices are working with drug users, human trafficking victims, HIV/AIDS sufferers, and prisoners. All of them desperately need support and assistance. It is, therefore, far beyond the VIC and Austria that the UN in Vienna is doing its most inestimable work.But what ends far away, begins with the organisations here in Vienna and their country offices. Its origins are with the staff. Together they define the United Nations through their passion, commitment and dedication to the ethics and principles of this fine organisation.The truth, perhaps the one salient, self-evidential, existential truth of the United Nations is that it cannot advance peace, security, development and human rights without dedicated and specialized staff. They are quite literally the alpha and the omega of this organization. We thrive with them; without them, we would only ever fail.
— Yury Fedotov (@YuryFedotov) 25. Oktober 2016
UN’s authority isn’t from status but its actions – unlike a State, #UN must be even more above reproach @opiniojuris https://t.co/03fGSY1SZO
— Duncan French (@Prof_DFrench) 25. Oktober 2016
News Lens: Education in Africa profits billionaire bleeding hearts …“public schools and their teachers, and the concept of education as a public good are under attack.”…Companies must be required to adhere to strict financial regulations, including independent auditing and regulations to monitor how government funds are spent. And, where they are in receipt of any government funding, directly or non-directly, they must be not-for profit. The profit motive has no place in dictating what is taught, how it’s taught nor how our schools are organized. https://t.co/l9y0EHwjOt
— Bretton Woods Proj. (@brettonwoodspr) 25. Oktober 2016
„Countries that worry me the most are US+Russia…[their] arsenal is an accident waiting to happen“ https://t.co/1VFjoKYuah #FirstCommittee https://t.co/D2yAHnHc02 — IPPNW (@IPPNW) 25. Oktober 2016
.@RobBarbier Un #budget d’alternance, c’est un budget sincère, c’est la priorité au redressement économique et social #QRLarcher pic.twitter.com/WsAg1Bx5HZ
— Gérard Larcher (@gerard_larcher) 25. Oktober 2016
Merci chers twittos d’avoir participé à ce débat. Je vous retrouve bientôt pour un nouveau #QRLarcher @Senat pic.twitter.com/R7snG9YTb2 — Gérard Larcher (@gerard_larcher) 25. Oktober 2016
Dear UN #FirstCommittee: 17 Nobel Laureates are calling on YOU to pass L.41 and mandate ban treaty negotiations. pic.twitter.com/EXk0fcUifu
— IPPNW (@IPPNW) 24. Oktober 2016
When it comes to nuclear war, the only winning move is not to play. Vote yes for #L41, ban #nuclearweapons! #firstcommittee #goodbyenukes pic.twitter.com/TCWOJxRg2o
— ReachingCriticalWill (@RCW_) 25. Oktober 2016
Dass ein Bürgerkrieg ausbrechen wird, glauben übrigens echt viele Menschen. Man kann darüber lachen. Oder fragen, warum das so ist — Yilmaz Gülüm (@YilmazGulum) 25. Oktober 2016
Danke für das Auge zudrücken @wienerlinien 😉 https://t.co/iS9HH9E122
— cariklaus (@KlausSchwertner) 25. Oktober 2016
Kinderarbeit oder der Kunde ist König
Was das mit uns zu tun hat? Wir kaufen diese Kleidung. Wir stehen in der… https://t.co/m9x7x2PECg — cariklaus (@KlausSchwertner) 25. Oktober 2016
#TurkishAirlines at #SabihaGokcen #airport in #Istanbul #Turkey #AllAboutTurkey.com https://t.co/ZUNT6eRA1k — Burak Sansal (@allaboutturkey) 25. Oktober 2016
Impunity:#Turkey claims 0 tolerance for torture, but emergency decrees absolve officials of responsibility. @HRW Rpt https://t.co/rZEgJmIUTl pic.twitter.com/5VzpGeORx3
— Lotte Leicht (@LotteLeicht1) 25. Oktober 2016
This little chap (Syrian refugee) was just fascinated with my camera. @unicef supported centre @uniceflebanon pic.twitter.com/xcYxwSkePq
— Sebastian Rich (@Hopefocus) 24. Oktober 2016
#CTBTO flag joins that of other #Vienna based organizations in a formal ceremony marking #UNStaffDay @UN_Vienna pic.twitter.com/YTKa3vP5M3
— CTBTO (@ctbto_alerts) 25. Oktober 2016
K-9 unit demonstration today at #UNStaffDay celebrations @UN_Vienna pic.twitter.com/z1t6067f07
— UN Vienna (@UN_Vienna) 25. Oktober 2016
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