On 10 December, Le Petit Prince, the world famous hero of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, was named the SpokesPrince for UNRIC’s Know Your Rights 2008 campaign to celebrate the 60^th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We thank Olivier d’Agay, the guardian of the estate of Antoine de Saint-Exupery and UN’s Under Secretary-General for Public Information Kiyo Akasaka.

UNRIC wishes you a very happy and healthy new year

During their summit in Brussels on December 14 European leaders agreed to send up to 1,800 police, judges, and administrators to Kosovo. The new EU mission is arguably Europe’s biggest nation-building operation.

The leaders said in a summit statement that the scope for any further negotiations between the Serbs and the K...
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A year-long campaign will be launched today to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which falls on December 10, 2008. This campaign will engage the whole UN system in promoting the Declaration’s ideals and principles of justice and equality for all of us which changed the landscape of international relations and gave substance to the aspirations to freedom and dignity of humankind. But the cel...
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We have read the science. Global warming is real, and we are a prime cause. We have heard the warnings. Unless we act, now, we face serious consequences. Polar ice may melt. Sea levels will rise. A third of our plant and animal species could vanish. There will be famine around the world, particularly in Africa and Central Asia. Largely lost in the debate is the good news. We can do something about this—more easily, and at far less cost, than most of us imagine.