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Please join us on the discussion on Social Good Summit “Women and Girls” with moderator Michele Vella, from Lehigh University, who is going to address two topics related to Women and Girls :
- Empowering Women and Girls : Hollywood, the United Nations and the Influence of Media. Watch discussion archive.

‎There are 3 main components for capacity building - entrepreneurship, which is creating something from nothing through technology; business and [rule of] law; and global leadership and global partnership, said Kim, who believes all three are essential to develop future leaders who can address world problems.

Read interview of President Kim, of UNAI Hub for Capacity-building Handong Global University from University World News.

‎24-year-old Ronan Farrow is a Special Adviser to U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton for global youth issues and director of the U.S. State Department’s Global Youth Issues office. He recently spoke at the UN High-Level meeting on Youth to promote partnerships between young people and the private sector. Listen to his interview on UN Radio.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. On 20 July 1848, a group of women and men adopted the Declaration of Sentiments at a convention called to address the plight of women in 19th century society, held at Seneca Falls, New York. Read the text of the Declaration on UNAI member Rutgers University website.

 

On Nelson Mandela International Day, a group of UN staff volunteered over 67 minutes each to paint benches in Central Park and sent birthday wishes with a cake that read Happy Birthday Madiba!!!

South Sudan became today the 193rd UN Member State. The newest African nation declared its independence from Sudan on 9 July after over two decades of civil war between north and South Sudan.

On 17 June, in message to IAUP, SG Ban commends UNAI student initiatives in South Africa and Pakistan

by UN Academic Impact on Monday, June 20, 2011 at 4:56pm

On 4 May 2011 “Getting the Facts Right” celebrated the first-ever issue of the UN Yearbook as an e-book. The panel included Prof. Robin Andersen and student Norhan Basuni from UNAI members Fordham University and CUNY Baccalaureate, as well as Prof. Pamela Falk, and Roland Schatz, from Media Tenor. Robert Bullock, New York State Archive, served as moderator. 

You can watch the webcast of the event here. 

 

The first European UNAI Conference starts tonight at Centro Niemeyer; this is also the first event to take place in the Centro's dome scheduled to celebrate Oscar Niemeyer's 103rd birthday.

Check event's Facebook page here:

Conferencia Inaugural del programa Impacto Académico de la ONU

Location: La cúpula del Centro Niemeyer, Avilés

Time: ‎9:30AM Thursday, December 16th

More than 200 participants representing 80+universities and organizations dealing with higher education and research participated in the Shanghai UNAI pre-launch conference.

Today in Shanghai, in his address to the UNAI pre-launch conference, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated: The United Nations understands the enormous impact of scholarship, innovation and ideas. We are trying to harness that great power to build a better world.