Category: United Nations

New organisations on UNJobList.org

Over the past days I have been able to gradually add new organisations to the UN Job List. Now there is also the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) on the list. In total there are now nine organisations listed (CTBTO, FAO, ICC, ILO, UNDP, UNFPA, Unicef, UNOPS, WHO). The goal is still to step by step get most of the UN organisations into the database and if there is any organisation that you are particularly interested in, you can now suggest it on the UN Job List.

The page is obviously still under development and you can help shape its features, too. I already received good feedback and comments on functionality from many colleagues and if you have something to add, just leave a comment below.

First day of the SG

The new SG Ban Ki-moon started his job – and started a discussion on the death penalty. See here.

United Nations: A new boss

The UN has a new Secretary General. Let’s hope the push for reform is even harder, that impact on the ground is given a higher priority and that we will see a more flexible, more capable set of responses to the multitude of problems in the world.