Twenty years ago: Lucire becomes UN Environment’s first fashion industry partner
It’s been 20 years since Lucire and the United Nations Environment Programme decided to work together. Jack Yan looks back at how the arrangement came about and why it’s even more vital today […]
Institute of Positive Fashion Forum aims to make real change for sustainable development
The Institute of Positive Fashion Forum will take place digitally on June 10, and runs from 9 a.m. to a final event with Stella McCartney commencing at 6.10 p.m. The thought leadership event is designed to galvanize the fashion industry—one of the planet’s major contributors to environmental harm—into action, ahead of COP26. Tickets […]
Global Citizen honours Richard Curtis, Sting, Amina J. Mohammed, and Hamdi Ulukaya
Tim P. Whitby; Tristan Fewings; Jeff Spicer As some countries’ politicians campaign on nationalism, there are others which see things along more international lines. Global Citizen, an organization that calls for world leaders to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030, has held its inaugural Global Citizen Prize at the Royal Albert Hall in London, part of […]
Demasking the torture of Julian Assange
David G. Silvers/Wikimedia Commons Above: The author, Prof Nils Melzer I know, you may think I am deluded. How could life in an embassy with a cat and a skateboard ever amount to torture? That’s exactly what I thought, too, when Assange first appealed to my office for protection. Like most of the […]
UNAIDS Top UNAIDS executive director Michel Sidibé with Victoria Beckham. Above Charlize Theron addresses the high-level UN event. On Sunday, Victoria Beckham made her first public appearance since London Fashion Week, speaking at the United Nations in New York in her capacity as a UNAIDS goodwill ambassador at the 70th session of the UN General […]
World announces T-shirt created for the United Nations, supporting the Global Goals
World has broken new ground again: it’s the first design house to have created a T-shirt for the United Nations, with the legend YOUN on the front. The company says the T-shirts support the UN’s 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development, to be launched on September 25 in New York, at an event attended […]
Igor Spektor Above Amy Malin gives her powerful speech on being a survivor of rape, assault and torture; actor Corey Feldman looks on. Amy Malin, AnnaLynne McCord, Corey Feldman, all of whom have suffered serious sexual assaults, joined Rani Hong, a survivor of slavery and child trafficking, at an event on Friday in Los Angeles, […]
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 […]
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 […]
