UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on International Day of Peace
This year’s International Day of Peace comes at a crisis point for humanity. COVID-19 has turned our world upside-down. Conflicts are spinning out of control. The climate emergency is worsening. Inequality and poverty are…
SRSG Spehar meets UN Youth Champions for Environment and Peace
Top United Nations official in Cyprus, Elizabeth Spehar, welcomed the UN Youth Champions for Environment and Peace at the Home for Cooperation to celebrate International Day of Peace and congratulate their efforts for…
Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions visits UNFICYP
Top United Nations official in Cyprus, Elizabeth Spehar, welcomed the Chairperson of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, Abdallah Bachar Bong, and his delegation this morning to the UN Protected…
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Join our Viber community and stay up to date with all the intercommunal activities in Cyprus! If you would like to promote your intercommunal event or activity, send an e-mail to unficyp-intercommunal-activity@un.org with a…
Boghos Avetikian: UN Youth Champions challenge the “us-versus-them” mentality
Boghos Avetikian is a 23-year-old Cypriot who cares about the environment in his country and tries to learn new ways to protect it. In August this year, he joined the UN Youth Champions for Environment and Peace programme and…
Antreas Pallikaras: “We both share the ambition of a sustainable and united Cyprus”
Antreas Pallikaras is a 22-year-old young Cypriot who always liked to get involved in programmes that promote conversations around the environment and climate change. When he saw the call for applications for this year’s UN…
Maghazi Elzubair: “Young people are powerful actors for achieving environmental justice and sustaining peace”
Maghazi Ahmed Elzubair is a 19-year-old environmental activist from Sudan who is currently in Cyprus completing her university studies. As an advocate for environmental justice, social equality and peace, she believes that…
Social entrepreneurship and innovation workshops
Scenes from our 2-day bootcamp on Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation with intensive workshops on everything ranging from ideation to business model canvasing, community building, and more – with great local and…
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The Secretary-General message on United Nations Day
Seventy-six years ago, the United Nations was created as a vehicle of hope for a world emerging from the shadow of catastrophic conflict. Today, the women and men of the UN carry this hope forward around the globe. COVID-19…
Women's walk and talk marks UN Day celebrations in Cyprus
To mark United Nations day, the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus facilitated a women's walk and talk this morning with representatives from both the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot communities. Top United…
SRSG Spehar discuss COP26 with UN Youth Champions for Environment and Peace
Top United Nations official in Cyprus, Elizabeth Spehar, and the US Ambassador, Judith Garber, met with some of the UN Youth Champions for Environment and Peace to discuss the role of young people as actors of change and hear…
Mr. Colin Stewart of Canada - Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Colin Stewart of Canada as his new Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP). Mr. Stewart…