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Press release: UNHCR urges more support to boost refugee access to tertiary education
Geneva, 03 October 2019
Only three per cent of refugees have access to higher education, according to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. In its “Refugee Student Voices: Refugee Students In Higher Education” report released this week, UNHCR is calling for critical support to scale up […]
UNHCR Press Release – Kyrgyz human rights lawyer wins UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award
02 October 2019
A lawyer, whose work has supported the efforts of the Kyrgyz Republic in becoming the first country in the world to end statelessness, has been selected as the 2019 winner of the UN Refugee Agency’s Nansen Refugee Award.
Azizbek Ashurov, through his organization […]
Visit UN City on Culture Night on October 11
Copenhagen, 30 September 2019
On 11th of October this year, UN City invites you to come and meet the 11 UN agencies resident in UN City Copenhagen. Coming off the C40 Major Summit, which is held in Copenhagen 9-12 October, we are using the topic […]
António Guterres’ address to the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly
New York, 24 September 2019
“The United Nations Charter sends a clear message to us all: put people first.
The first words of the Charter — “we the peoples” – are a summons to place people at the centre of our work.
Every day. Everywhere.
People with anxieties […]
UN City in Pictures
Climate & SDGs Synergy Conference, 1-3 April 2019
Nearly 400 participants from around the world came together for the first Climate and SDGs Synergy Conference—formally the “Global Conference on Strengthening Synergies between the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”—and agreed that a stronger connection between the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provides the world’s best opportunity for positive, systemic change that will ensure a sustainable and inclusive development in a healthy environment for present and future generations.
Junior Culture Night, 15 March 2019
The Global Goals were the focal point for the Junior Culture Night hosted by #UNCity4Schools on Friday 15th of March. Around 4 pm, children and their parents arrived at UN City, which in honour of the occasion was transformed into a ‘Global Goals playground’ consisting of small ‘Islands’ with different activities. During the afternoon and evening, children built sustainable cities of bricks, they put Global Goal number 3 into practice through dance and parkour activities and they had a taste of the protein and vitamin-containing biscuits that the World Food Programme offers to children in countries with extreme hunger. The Junior Culture Night is a new initiative on the Copenhagen culture scene and the event in UN City was therefore the first of its kind. UN City welcomed in total 300 guests throughout the evening.
SDG Talk: International Women’s Day, 8 March 2019
If we are going to achieve gender equality by 2030, we have to make sure that we leave no one behind. This was the key message of the March 8 panel discussion hosted by UN Women and UNDP on the occasion of International Women’s Day. The panellists were Author and Debater Geeti Amiri, Author Ahmad Mahmoud, Head of Project Bydelsmødre Mai-Britt Haugaard, Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School Ana Maria Munar and Secretary-General of the Nordic Council of Ministers Dagfinn Højbråten.
KADK conference, 29 October 2018
UN City Copenhagen and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK) hosted their second annual conference on 29 October. 180 students and staff from KADK participated in six different workshops that were moderated by KADK and UN representatives. The aim was to discuss the possible role of architects, designers and conservators in the work the UN carries out on the ground to implement the Sustainable Development Goals. The themes that were discussed were digital empowerment, gender, disasters and people, sustainable urban development and rapid urbanization, circular economy, and ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. Each UN representative introduced their special focus area followed by intensive and productive groups discussions.
About UN City
UN City comprises two campuses. Campus 1 on Marmormolen houses 11 UN organizations with 1,500 staff members representing more than 100 nationalities. Campus 2, located in the container port in the Northern Harbor, constitutes UNICEF’s state-of-the-art high bay warehouse. With a total storage capacity of 36,000 pallets, it is the largest humanitarian warehouse in the world.
Visit UN City
We welcome outside visitors once a week, Fridays at 14.00. Additionally, school or university groups can contact us for private tours or lectures from the UN agencies in the building. UN City also opens its doors to primary school children. Read more about #UNCity4Schools here.
The Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) build on the success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and aim to go further to end all forms of poverty. The new Goals are unique in that they call for action by all countries, poor, rich and middle-income to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. Read about the Goals here.