Yearbook News
Bilingual English-Chinese edition of the first Yearbook of the United Nations
Since 2014, graduate students in English Translation and Interpreting in the School of Foreign Languages at Soochow University have been collaborating with the Yearbook Unit of the United Nations Department of Global Communications in the context of a compulsory course in rendering the chapter introductions of Yearbook of the United Nations volumes that make up the Yearbook Express from English into Chinese, with a total of thirty-one editions of the Yearbook Express covering the period from 1983 to 2013 having been translated. This work is now being capped by their preparation of a bilingual English-Chinese edition of the first volume of the Yearbook of the United Nations (1946–47), which features an extensive portrayal of the founding of the Organization amid the turmoil of the Second World War and its initial steps in the immediately ensuing years—the first part of which is now available on the Yearbook website
Now available! Yearbook of the United Nations, 2015
The online edition of the sixty-ninth volume of the Yearbook of the United Nations, covering the Organization’s global activities in 2015, is now available on the Yearbook website. The 2015 edition of the Yearbook, as Secretary-General António Guterres states in the Foreword to the volume, recounts the pivotal year in which the global community reached agreement on a number of crucial road maps for the future—including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Fostering international understanding
Since 2014, students in the Master of Translation and Interpreting programme in the School of Foreign Languages at Soochow University have been translating the Yearbook Express from English to Chinese. More
Now available! Building the future: Stepping stones in United Nations history
The United Nations presence at Expo 2020 Dubai engages visitors in stories of multilateralism at work through the decades from the 1940s to the present day. More
Journalists and diplomats reap benefits from Yearbook workshops
In October 2021, seventeen journalists of the Reham Al-Farra Journalism Fellowship (RAF) took part in the annual “Using the Yearbook online” training workshop conducted by editors of the Yearbook, the authoritative reference on the Organization’s activities and concerns.
Yearbook online migrates to new UN website platform
The Yearbook of the United Nations website has a new look! In line with a UN Office of Information and Communications Technology/Department of Global Communications project to upgrade UN websites by April 2022, the Yearbook online collection has been migrated to the new UN website platform.
Eliminating racism: time for change
The death of George Floyd in May 2020 galvanized people worldwide to protest racism and discrimination and prompted global discussions on racial justice, including at the United Nations, which has advocated for human rights and racial equality since its inception.
UN and Guatemala peace process
On this day in 1996, after three years of United Nations-moderated peace talks between the Guatemalan Government and representatives from the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca, the parties signed the Agreement on a Firm and Lasting Peace, ending decades of civil conflict that took the lives of over 200,000 Guatemalans.
The fight against influenza
Long before the coronavirus (#COVID-19) arrived, the United Nations created a system to defend against the recurrence of an influenza pandemic like the 1918 flu that killed over 40 million people. In 1947, the Interim Commission of the World Health Organization (WHO) set up the Global Influenza Programme (GIP) and in 1948, the World Influenza Centre was established to monitor, analyze and desiminate health data on any epidemics.
Take the UN DESA publications and databases survey!
As the authoritative reference on the annual activities and concerns of the United Nations, the Yearbook of the United Nations regularly covers international economic and social questions in its Part Three. Take the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs 2020 survey of its publications and databases to let the United Nations know your views on these resources!
Support women and girls in science!
Science and technology are often considered to be the forte of men. #Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11 February), which presents an opportunity to dispel myths, celebrate women who made crucial discoveries and inventions in the world of science, such as physicist Marie Curie, primatologist #JaneGoodall and marine biologist Rachel Carson
UNEP issues greenhouse gas emissions report
The UN Climate Change Conference (2-13 December 2019) #COP25 in Madrid started today, less than a week after the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) issued its annual Emissions Gap Report.
30th anniversary of children's rights convention
2019 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the General Assembly’s adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which has become the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history and has helped transform children’s lives around the world.
“Breathe with me” exhibit at UN and Central Park
“Breathe with Me", a public art action for the world, conceived and executed by Jeppe Hein with ART 2030, invites people to paint their individual breath onto large canvases in the shape of vertical blue lines, one for every exhale, raising awareness that the air we breathe is part of our connected world and climate.
One week: 5 summits, 17 Goals
The outcomes of five high-level events taking place at UN Headquarters in New York this week: the Climate Action Summit (23 September); the High-level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (23 September); the SDG Summit (24-25 September); the High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development (26 September); and the High-level Midterm Review of the Samoa Pathway (27 September) are expected to galvanize a decade of ambitious action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.