The Year in Images | The UN Brief in Action

From the WTO Public Forum to the UN General Assembly in New York to the UN Refugees Agency Global Forum We Were (almost) Everywhere. Thank You for Your Support! Happy New Year!

Dec 28, 2023

As the year draws to a close we take a moment to review our highlights of the year, in pictures. In 2023 we continued to see the horrors of war and environment governance made a tiny tiny step in the right direction. Hope was (almost) in shortage, we counted on the UN humanitarian workers, several gave their lives.

They continue to toil as we speak.

A big thank you to all who helped make 2023 a superb year.

Paris Peace Forum

Panel on Social Platforms and Youth Radicalization with former prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, where she spoke of an alliance with Microsoft and other tech companies to work alongside governments to curb youth exposure to terrorism.

GESDA Summit at CERN

Where European scientists and diplomats gather to imagine the future.

Photo: Maya Plentz | Swiss Ambassador Alexander Fasel, Ambassador Benedikt Wechsler, UN Secretary General Tech Envoy Amandeep Gill, Chairman of the GESDA Board Michael Moller

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UNEP

Minamata Convention Conference of Parties

Getting Mercury Phased Out from Cosmetics, Gold Mines, and Dentistry

Executive Secretary of the Minamata Convention, Monika Stankiewicz, Photo: Maya Plentz

IOM

International Organisation for Migration Adopts New and Emerging Tech

IOM Spokesperson Mr. Ituri, Photo: Maya Plentz

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UN General Assembly, New York

So many events, so little time. At the Loss and Damage Fund debate.

Spanish Minister for the Environment at the GA, Loss and Damage Fund Debate, Photo: Maya Plentz

The SDG Media Zone

Where many events on communicating the SDGs to the large public happened.

Photos from L to R: European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson; Minister of Environment of Brazil Marina Silva with Portugal Minister of Foreign Affairs Joao Cravinho; Dr. Mike Ryan and Dr. Sylvie Briand, WHO Emergency and Epidemiology; UN Department of Global Communications Director of Partnerships; Rebeca Grynspan UNCTAD Secretary General; Marina Silva. Photo credit: Maya Plentz

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International Atomic Energy Agency Director General, Rafael Grossi at the UN in New York. Photo credit: Maya Plentz

WTO Public Forum

Brazil Panel on Amazon Rainforest Trade Barriers and Presidential Lecture by Gordon Brown, with WTO DG and Canada’s Permanent Representative to the WTO.