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[...] [...] mayors, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors and Artists [...] [...]

[...] understanding and goodwill.

This will be achieved by promoting and protecting the organization’s agenda and its reputation in the global media, particularly before, during and after large-scale emergencies; developing multimedia communication products and strategically placing them on multimedia platforms for targeted audiences; developing and promoting the organization’s approach to social media and more innovative use of social media tools and platforms in a way that triggers and sustains interactive dialogue with targeted audiences; and ensuring that UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors are strategically engaged as third-party advocates for the public awareness of UNICEF work.

[...] [...] appointment of goodwill ambassadors, [...] [...]

[...] [...] appointment of a Goodwill Ambassador to [...]

Her first trips as Goodwill Ambassador were to Mexico (1994), Chile (1995) and Viet Nam (1996) where she visited UNICEF-supported projects, met with government officials and performed in concerts that benefited UNICEF programmes.

The Group would like to clarify that, contrary to reports in the Rwandan press, the Group’s final report in November 2010 did not document any substantial links with, or material support to, FDLR by the Rwandan dissidents Colonel Patrick Karegeya and Lieutenant General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, aside from a potential emissary who may have visited armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in February 2010 (S/2010/596, para. 166).

As an FAO Goodwill Ambassador, she acted as the patron for the Southwest Pacific region to promote an initiative launched by the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) in 2006, consisting in an auction sale of items belonging to world class athletes, and part of the proceeds of the sale were donated to FAO.

[...] [...] Peace a Chance” and a goodwill ambassador for [...]

A delegate proposed to appoint high-profile persons as goodwill ambassadors for the above-mentioned purposes.

In addition to corporate partnerships, UNHCR’s relationships with major charitable foundations, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Nations Foundation, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, and the Howard G. Buffet Foundation, as well as with the Office’s Goodwill Ambassadors, brought about important contributions and material support, and played a critical role in terms of advocacy.

There needs to be increased monitoring of the relationship between the industry and the United Nations, including its Goodwill Ambassadors, who, according to the Guidelines for the designation of Goodwill Ambassadors and Messengers of Peace, are expected to be “persons of integrity who demonstrate a strong desire to help mobilize public interest in, and support for, the purposes and principles of the United Nations”.

The Secretary-General also hosted a luncheon in honour of the Messengers of Peace and Goodwill Ambassadors.

[...] or national goodwill ambassadors, [...] [...]

UNDP Advisory Board meetings, Cairo, 8 September 2007; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Goodwill Ambassadors’ Annual Meetings, 3 April 2007, 20 May 2008 and 24 June 2010 at UNESCO headquarters, Paris; UNESCO Regional Conference on Quality Education for All, 25 August 2008, Paris; Forum of Arab Parliamentarians for Education, 21 and 22 July 2008, Beirut, organized by UNESCO, in cooperation with the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States and the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization.

The Institute sent observers to: (a) the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh sessions of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; (b) the thirty-third and thirty-fourth sessions of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); (c) the 2006, 2007 and 2008 UNESCO International Mother Language Day celebrations; (d) the 2005 UNESCO International Literacy Day; (e) the World Summit on the Information Society, in Tunis; (f) the UNESCO International Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations, December 2005, Paris; (g) the sixtieth anniversary of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn’s UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadorship; (h) the Fourth Meeting of the Collective Consultation of NGOs on Education for all; (i) the regional preparatory conferences for the sixth International Conference on Adult Education; and (j) the forty-eighth session of the International Conference on Education.

Audrey Hepburn, who was a devoted UNICEF Ambassador, has left two worthy champions for her humanitarian cause -- her sons, Sean Ferrer and Luca Dotti, who keep her legacy, life works and charities meaningful and alive. www.audreyhepburn.com

UNISFA also proposed to the parties that the secretaries of the Committee be made members of joint committees composed of the Abyei Joint Oversight Committee and UNISFA, the first of which is tasked with sensitizing the Ngok Dinka and Misseriya on the processes for unarmed migration and return, the second of which is a “goodwill” committee tasked with engaging with the Ngok Dinka and Misseriya leadership and encouraging them to work closely with UNISFA on the implementation of its mandate.

Call-for-entry videos in English, French and Spanish featuring the SecretaryGeneral, United Nations Children’s Fund Goodwill Ambassadors Jackie Chan, Angélique Kidjo, Youssou N’Dour and Lionel Messi and United Nations Messengers of Peace Stevie Wonder and Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein asked YouTube viewers how to make our world a “better, safer place” and were viewed over 56,000 times during the campaign.

With low regulation and high economic insecurity, we get an environment in which merchants of death can make millions — as portrayed by Nicolas Cage, Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in “The Lord of War”.

In the light of the guidelines set out in article 5.3 of the Convention, there should be a review of the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Programme to ensure that no industry-sponsored person represents the United Nations.