UN4U: United Nations Works for You
As part of the commemoration for UN Day, 24 October, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN staff -- representing a diverse range of departments, agencies and programmes -- travelled to high schools in all five boroughs of New York City to speak to students about the work of the Organization.
Watch the video of the Secretary-General visit to NEST+m High School.
UN Visitors Centre, of the Department of Public Information, created this programme as an outreach campaign to our wonderful host city, New York, by establishing a dialogue with students, bringing the UN to them, actively engaging and inspiring them to take an interest in global issues.
Check the lovely Thank you cards sent by the students of Columbia Secondary School to our UN Speaker, Mr. Franz Baumann, Assitant Secretary-General, UN Dept. for General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM).
UN4U 2011 had a special place in DGACM quaterly News Letter of January 2012.
UN4U 2011 takes place during the week of 17-21 and 25-28 October and will focus on ‘Ways the UN Makes a Difference in Our Everyday Life’ with five focal areas:
Check out the list of participating schools and programme material:
- Watch photos and student video interviews on our Facebook page
- List of particiating NYC Schools
- UN4U 2011 Presentation (in PDF format)
- Watch video "If I could change" (on Youtube) feautiring: Ziggy Marley, Sweet Rush, Ahmed Salman. Courtesy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
- UN4U Logo Use Guidelines and Waiver of Liability Form
- Press Release
Read more about past years' programme:
For more information, please contact us at: unitg@un.org
Bronx
Bronx Envision Academy
BRONX
26-Oct-2011
UN speaker: David Jeffrey, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs (OLA)
Bronx High School for Writing & Communication Arts
BRONX
26-Oct-2011
UN speaker: Nathalie Leroy, United Nations Dept. of Public Information (DPI)
Bronx Science High School
BRONX
21-Oct-2011
UN speaker: Jay Pozenel, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs (OLA)
Foreign Language Academy of Global Studies
BRONX
25-Oct-2011
UN speaker: Megan Cossey, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Harry S. Truman High School
BRONX
19-Oct-2011
UN speaker: Patrick Haverman, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Herbert H. Lehman High School
BRONX
27-Oct-2011
UN speaker: Dena Gudaitis, World Food Programme (WFP)
High School for Violin and Dance
BRONX
20-Oct-2011
UN speaker: Mudiwa Mapuranga, United Nations Office of Administration of Justice
High School of Computer & Technologies
BRONX
17-Oct-2011
UN speaker: Papa Malick Diakhate, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
New York Institute for Special Education
BRONX
25-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Fred Doulton, Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
Brooklyn
Academy of Innovative Technology HS
BROOKLYN
19-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Einat Temkin, United Nations Dept. of Public Information (DPI)
ACORN Community High School
BROOKLYN
27-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Jennifer Branche, United Nations Department of Management (DM)
Automotive High School
BROOKLYN
27-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Boaz Paldi, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
East New York Family Academy HS
BROOKLYN
26-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Boaz Paldi, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Freedom Academy High School
BOOKLYN
27-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Astrid Hurley, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
High School for Innovation in Advertising and Media
BROOKLYN
20-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Ari Gaitanis, United Nations Dept. of Public Information (DPI)
High School for Medical Professions
BROOKLYN
25-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Peter Smith, United Nations Capital Master Plan (CMP)
IS68 Isaac Bildersee Middle School
BROOKLYN
28-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Michiko Kuroda, United Nations Department of Management (DM) and
Balasubramaniam Murali, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
It Takes A Village - Samuel J. Tilden HS
BROOKLYN
18-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Syed Chishti, United Nations Department of Safety and Security (DSS)
Leon Goldstein High School for the Sciences
BROOKLYN
25-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Yvonne Acosta, United Nations Dept. of Public Information (DPI)
School For Legal Studies
BROOKLYN
24-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Donald Lee, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
Sheepshead Bay High School
BROOKLYN
24-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Mohammad Reza Salamat, United Nations Climate Change Support Team (CCST)
Sunset Park High School
BROOKLYN
20-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Richard Amdur, Office of the Secretary-General
26-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Emeka Onumajuru, Untied Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO)
The School for Human Rights
BROOKLYN
27-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Marc-Andre Dorel, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
Manhattan
Bard High School Early College
MANHATTAN
26-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Elizabeth Leff, United Nations Department of Political Affairs (DPA)
Baruch College Campus High School
MANHATTAN
20-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Victor Kisob, United Nations Office of Human Resources Management (OHRM)
City College High School of Arts
MANHATTAN
19-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Jagoda Walorek, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Coalition School for Social Change
MANHATTAN
27-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Kerstin Bihlmaier, United Nations Department of Political Affairs (DPA)
Columbia Secondary School
MANHATTAN
18-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Franz Baumann, United Nations Dept. for General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM)
Community Health Academy of the Heights
MANHATTAN
24-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Sara Greenblatt, United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTED)
East Side Community High School
MANHATTAN
25-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Navid Hanif, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
27-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Gillian Kitley, Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide
Eleonor Roosevelt High School
MANHATTAN
28-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Daniel Platz, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
Global Learning Collaborative High School
MANHATTAN
21-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Warren Sach, United Nations Office of Central Support Services (OCSS)
Gramercy Arts High School
MANHATTAN
21-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Kiyo Akasaka, United Nations Dept. of Public Information (DPI)
Harlem Village Academy High School
MANHATTAN
21-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Carolina Azevedo, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
High School for Law and Public Service
MANHATTAN
19-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Suhail Khan, United Nations Dept. of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO)
Humanities Preparatory Academy
MANHATTAN
28-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Lee Woodyear, United Nations Dept. of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO)
Lower Manhattan Arts Academy-Seward Park Campus
MANHATTAN
25-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Ewen Buchanan, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA)
Manhattan Center High School
MANHATTAN
19-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Hawa Diallo, UN-HABITAT
19-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Hawa Diallo, UN-HABITAT
Manhattan Village Academy High School
MANHATTAN
26-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Taye Brook Zerihoun, United Nations Department of Political Affairs (DPA)
Murray Bergtraum High School
MANHATTAN
20-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Edmund Mulet, United Nations Dept. of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO)
NEST+m High School
MANHATTAN
24-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General
NYC iSchool
MANHATTAN
24-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Melanie Prudhomme, United Nations Dept. of Public Information (DPI)
NYC Museum High School
MANHATTAN
19-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, United Nations Department of Political Affairs (DPA)
Satellite Academy High School
MANHATTAN
24-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: John Solecki, UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
Stuyvesant High School
MANHATTAN
26-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Ivan Simonovic, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Tenzer Learning Center
MANHATTAN
28-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Daniela Sinobad & Bo Li, United Nations Dept. of Public Information (DPI)
The Heritage School
MANHATTAN
19-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Carman Lapointe Confirmed
26-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Stephen Mathias, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs (OLA)
Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts
MANHATTAN
25-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Ramu Damodaran, United Nations Dept. of Public Information (DPI)
Washington Irving H.S.
MANHATTAN
25-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Stephane Dujarric, United Nations Dept. of Public Information (DPI)
Queens
Business, Computer Applications & Entrepreneurship HS
QUEENS
18-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Dawn Roberts, United Nations Dept. of Public Information (DPI)
Channel View School for Research
QUEENS
19-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Abdel-Rahman Ghandour, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Flushing High School
QUEENS
21-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Silke Von Brockhausen, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Flushing International High School
Check out photo taken during presentation
QUEENS
21-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Juan Carlos Brandt, United Nations Dept. of Public Information (DPI)
21-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Jian Guang Zhou, United Nations Dept. for General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM)
21-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Jean-Luc Benayoun, United Nations Dept. for General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM)
High School for Arts & Business
QUEENS
24-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Gail Bindley-Taylor Sainte, United Nations Dept. of Public Information (DPI)
Martin Van Buren High School
QUEENS
21-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Taïna Glaude, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs (OLA)
Math Science Research & Technology High School
QUEENS
24-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Bill Yotive, United Nations Dept. of Public Information (DPI)
Queens Collegiate HS
QUEENS
25-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Murali Bablasubramaniam, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Queens Gateway to Health Sciences
QUEENS
21-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Sergio Vieira, United Nations Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
21-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Sergio Vieira, United Nations Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
Queens Vocational and Technical HS
QUEENS
21-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Yasin Samatar, Secretariat of the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB)
Townsend Harris HS at Queens College
QUEENS
12-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Elisabeth Waechter, United Nations Dept. of Public Information (DPI)
12-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Elisabeth Waechter, United Nations Dept. of Public Information (DPI)
12-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Elisabeth Waechter, United Nations Dept. of Public Information (DPI)
Staten Island
College of Staten Island High School
STATEN ISLAND
25-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Carlos Islam, United Nations Dept. of Public Information (DPI)
Curtis High School
STATEN ISLAND
27-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Yvonne Lodico, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
Gaynor McCown Expeditionary Learning School
STATEN ISLAND
25-Oct-2011
UN Speaker: Simon Thomas, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)