UN Women in collaboration with United Nations ESCAP has lit up the United Nations Building and UNESCAP on Rajadamnoen Nok, Thailand’s oldest avenue in orange to raise awareness and encourage action to stop violence against women. Orange has been chosen as the colour as it is a bright and optimistic colour, representing a future free from violence against women and girls…
CLICK & REGISTER TO ATTEND EVENT THINK.EAT.SAVE 2015 – BANGKOK – Thursday, 3 December 12PM until 2PM Parc Paragon, Siam Paragon The UN Environment Programme Asia Pacific has enlisted the support of leading Australian food rescue organisation, OzHarvest, to educate and raise awareness about the issues of global food waste, food security and sustainability. To support the UN’s Sustainable Development…
What is a CLC? A community learning centre is a local educational institution, usually set up and managed by local communities to provide various learning opportunities with the support of the government, NGOs, and the private sector. Literacy, post-literacy, income generation, life skill programmes and basic education are typically offered at CLCs. The learning programmes in CLCs vary according to…
The Asia-Pacific Commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women was organised at the UN Conference Centre in Bangkok on 25 November 2015. This year marks the five-year anniversary of the Asia-Pacific regional launch of the UN Secretary-General’s UNiTE to End Violence Against Women Campaign. Three hundred and fifty people marched from the Government House in…
SDGs Exhibition
Op-Ed of the UN Secretary General – What I Expect From the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris
World Leaders have committed to 17 Global Goals to achieve 3 extraordinary things in the next 15 years. End extreme poverty. Fight inequality & injustice. Fix climate change. The Global Goals for sustainable development could get these things done. In all countries. For all people. If the Goals are going to work, everyone needs to know about them. TELL EVERYONE….
Bangkok, 17 August 2015 — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and all of us at the United Nations were shocked to learn of the explosion in Bangkok today close to the Erawan shrine in Rajaprasong. The Secretary-General and the entire United Nations Country Team in Thailand as well as all United Nations personnel join together to express our condolences to the bereaved…
2 April 2015 – Fifteen years – that is the amount of time left before global water resources hit a level that is too low to keep in step with the increasing population rate, according to the latest United Nations World Water Development Report. Readmore
1 April 2015 – UNICEF welcomes the decision by the Government to introduce a Child Support Grant scheme later this year. Under the scheme, poor and near-poor families with children will receive a monthly allowance of 400 baht per child from 0 to 1 year of age. Read more
