HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNITED NATIONS!

Click HERE to visit the United Nations Day page!

Quick quiz!

1. What is United Nations Day?
2. Why is it celebrated on the 24th of October every year?
3. How many member nations does the UN have?
4. What is the name of the Secretary General of the UN?
5. Which countries are members of the Security Council?
6. What are the aims of the UN?
7. How many children's lives are saved by the UN vaccination programme every year?
8. Who said: "So let us wage a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism and let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons".
9. How many Blue Berets are there?
10. Click HERE to test your knowledge of UN history!

Assignement 1: who, what, where, how, why?

Research and prepare a short oral presentation on one of the following topics:

• The Atlantic Charter and the the UN Charter
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• The General Assembly
• The Security Council
• UN Peacekeeping
• The Economic and Social Council
• The Secretary General
• The Secretary-General's message for 2013 (click HERE!)
• The WHO
• FAO
• Millenium Development Goals
• UNESCO
• UNICEF
• UNICEF The State of the World's Children 2013 report
• Convention on the Rights of the Child
• What should be done about child soldiers?
• Global Education First Initiative (click HERE!)
• A World at School
• UNiting for Youth

Assignement 2: the UN in action!

1. Click HERE: UN News Centre
2. Do the INTERACTIVE NEWS QUIZ
3. In the In Focus section, choose one of the topics, read/listen/watch, then summarise UN involvement.
4. Watch UN WEB TV (click HERE!), summarise the news, and list the questions the news item(s) bring up for you.
5. In the News by Topic section, chose one of the topics, give an overview of UN actions, then chose a particular subsection to report on for your school webzine (entitle your short article: "The UN, doing good")

Assignement 3: apply for an internship at the UN!

1. Choose a domain you would like to work in (look at the poster above).
2. Study what the UN does in the domain you have chosen.
3. Study the web page on internships at the UN (click HERE!)
4. Write a motivation letter to apply for an internship at the UN (outline the necessary qualities and skills you think are needed to do the job you are applying for, then describe an experience you have had which proves you have the necessary qualities and skills to do the job!).
5. Do a mock interview for the internship.

Assignement 4: discuss!

1. What, according to you, is wrong with the world?
2. What is positive about the state of the world (what gives you hope)?
3. What positive initiatives are being taken (by the UN and others) to solve problems (cf. Ban's message for 2013)?
4. What criticisms are made of the UN?
5. Write a speech that you have been invited to give to the UN General Assembly on your solutions to the world's problems!

Assignement 5: compete!

Take part in the essay-writing contest "Many languages, one world" (click HERE!)