Tag Archives: UN

Follow on Twitter = Planting Trees

The United Nations Environment Programme has engaged in a really cool Twitter campaign. For every follower @UNEPandYou gets by midnight on June 5 — World Environment Day — the Programme will plant a tree, with a cap of 100,000 trees.
The Twitter effort seeks to raise awareness of the World Environment Day initiative by [...]

World on Fire

Today marks the 60th Anniversary of the UN’s Declaration of Human Rights, the day after the 60th anniversary of the UN’s pact to end genocide. To commemorate the Human Rights pact, bloggers throughout the world are discussing their first human rights memory of import.  And because so much of our work at the agency [...]