Launched at UN Headquarters in 2003, the Literacy Decade aims to improve literacy levels and empower people everywhere.
The BBC's Barbara Plett at the UN headquarters in New York asks whether the move is more than symbolic.
The High-level Meeting on Youth was held at UN Headquarters in New York, USA, on 25-26 July 2011, by the United Nations General Assembly.
The UN headquarters in New York is also to stay closed, while public transport was suspended in Washington DC, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston.
In January, a high-level Iraqi delegation is expected at UN headquarters in New York for talks with Secretary-General Kofi Annan on how to break the deadlock.
We came to the UN headquarters in New York to try to learn exactly who gave this permission for the gun refurbishment, and what form it took.
More than 120 heads of state and governments as well as heads of international organizations will gather at the UN Headquarters to discuss the current global challenges and design corresponding solutions.
However, the attack on the UN headquarters may have cost America another contributor of troops: Japan appears likely to delay sending soldiers to Iraq, fearing that the security situation is too uncertain.
Although experts doubt whether AQLIM has direct operational links with al-Qaeda elsewhere, its methods - which include suicide bombings - and its choice of targets, such as foreign workers and the UN headquarters in Algiers, follow the al-Qaeda method.
For 2002, proclaimed United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage, UNESCO has chosen the themes of reconciliation and development as the focus of its activities, which will be presented at UN headquarters in New York today by UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Culture, Mounir Bouchenaki.
On Monday, the New York Sun published the speech that Republican vice presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would have delivered at that day's rally outside UN headquarters in New York against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and against Iran's plan to destroy Israel.
Persuading the rival religious and ethnic groups to compromise, and keeping the handover plan on course, would be easier if the UN returned to Iraq to oversee the political transition (they were withdrawn last October after two bomb attacks on the UN headquarters in Baghdad caused heavy casualties).
The event, which will be held at UN Headquarters in New York, aims to promote interactive dialogue on this important issue. using an evidence-based approach that shows public-private partnerships are integral components to achieving international development goals, including the six Education for All (EFA) goals and the two education-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
UN's headquarters in Baghdad , a car bomb exploded, killing the driver and an Iraqi policeman.
UN's headquarters in New York, the securocrats are increasingly twitchy.
Ministers and officials will be coming to Brussels fresh from an informal two-day session at UN climate convention headquarters in Bonn, where they've heard United Nations Environment Programme chief scientist Joseph Alcamo outline a few key issues.
UN's local headquarters and the embassies of some of the countries providing troops.
Many were surrounded by riot police and barbed wire as they demonstrated outside the US and French embassies and the UN Development Program's headquarters.
UN's long-time headquarters at the Canal Hotel did its best to look like a neutral body in a country at peace.
They hope that the cumulative effects of daily roadside ambushes, together with more spectacular attacks on UN and other aid organizations' headquarters, a hotel housing many Coalition Provisional Authority personnel (and a visiting top official from Washington) and most especially Iraqi police stations, will have the desired effect.
To do so, UN Women will need more than a strong headquarters.
And at New York Headquarters, we have the new UN Women as you know very well, this is headed by the former President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet.
In the wake of the Second World War, a UN conference was convened in London, in the global headquarters of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), to create an organisation that would bring global peace and security by means of moral and intellectual solidarity.
Consequently, the first UN Inter-Agency Meeting on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity took place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 13-14 September 2011.
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