The 2014 Prix Pictet awarded in London
Paula Sweet Top Michael Schmidt’s winning installation. Above Stephen Barber and Kofi Annan during the award announcement. A gala presentation ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on the night of May 21 named Berlin-based photographer Michael Schmidt as the winner of the eighth annual Prix Pictet. The award endeavours to promote the […]
Angelina Jolie highlights Syrian plight in her latest UNHCR visit
J. Tanner/UNHCR Above UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie meets with refugees at the Za’atri refugee camp in Jordan. Actress Angelina Jolie, in her capacity as a UNHCR Special Envoy, visited Syrian refugees on the Jordan–Syria border. The refugees had made the dangerous crossing to Jordan from war-torn Syria. One family which Jolie met recalled […]
Beyoncé performs at UN for World Humanitarian Day
Beyoncé has performed at the United Nations’ General Assembly Hall in New York, in advance of World Humanitarian Day on August 19. The concert was designed to promote the day, and to get people to pledge that they will do something for another person with mass social network messages through its website, which aims to […]
Video: Angelina Jolie made UNHCR special envoy
J. Tanner/UNHCR Above Angelina Jolie visits children in Afghanistan. Angelina Jolie has been made a Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees’ chief António Guterres. Jolie, who has worked as a goodwill ambassador for UNHCR for the last decade, has conducted over 40 field visits around the world to places such […]
Angelina Jolie visits Libya to observe aid, but in personal capacity
Angelina Jolie, actress and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) ambassador, arrived in Libya on Tuesday, touring Misrata. From a hotel in the main insurgent stronghold, Jolie spoke to media, praising the Libyan people. The UNHCR has stressed that Jolie’s visit is in a personal capacity only, observing how UN aid is reaching […]
Daniel Craig in drag, while Judi Dench narrates, in International Women’s Day PSA
We’ve already seen the headlines but here’s James Bond actor Daniel Craig, in drag for International Women’s Day. Dame Judi Dench, who plays his on-screen boss M, provides the narration. The PSA highlights the professional inequalities faced by women in the first half. The second half discusses the lack of educational opportunities for and […]
Angelina Jolie and Jesús Vázquez celebrate UNHCR’s 60th anniversary
Alonso Serrano/UNHCR Angelina Jolie continued to highlight the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees—UNHCR—as a Goodwill Ambassador for the international refugee agency on Thursday. She met with fellow ambassador Jesús Vázquez, the Spanish TV presenter, to celebrate the organization’s 60th anniversary in Madrid. The UNHCR was only […]
Muna Abu Sulayman awarded 2010 Colin Morley Award
Muna Abu Sulayman is today announced as the winner of the Medinge Group’s 2010 Colin Morley Award, given to an individual who has contributed to the betterment of society through sustainable, socially responsible and humanistic behaviour. The award is part of Medinge’s annual Brands with a Conscience list, now in its seventh year. ‘It […]
Claudia Schiffer and others commemorate children’s rights’ convention
The fall of the Berlin Wall is not the only 20th anniversary being celebrated this month. UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassadors have recorded a series of PSAs to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which takes place on November 20. Supermodel Claudia Schiffer appears in one PSA (above) […]
Charlize Theron, UN Messenger of Peace
In the main part of our site today, photographs of and quotations from Charlize Theron as she is inducted by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a Messenger of Peace, focusing on violence against women. As we reveal, this matter is very near and dear to Theron’s heart, and she has spent a great deal […]
