The UN Cares website speaks Spanish and French
10 May, 2012

UN Cares en Español, et en Français!

SP: Finalmente, gracias al excelente trabajo de Amalia Bonilla, voluntaria que encontramos a través del portal de voluntariado en línea de UNV, el sitio web de UN Cares ha sido íntegramente traducido al Español. Ingresa al portal en Español haciendo click en el ícono del idioma deseado.

FR: Grâce au travail volontaire de Nathalie Goffin (UNAIDS) et de David Decharte (ILO), le site web de UN Cares est maintenant disponible en Français. Pour y accéder, cliquez sur le bouton en haut. Merci pour votre collaboration avec ce travail de traduction!

EN: The Spanish website of UN Cares has been updated and completely revamped thanks to the translation work of Amalia Bonilla who did it on a pro-bono basis. We found Amalia through the UN Volunteer’s Online Volunteering web portal and she did a great job. Please share this news with your Spanish speaking audience, colleagues who study Spanish, and others. Access the Spanish version by clicking on the language icon at www.uncares.org.

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UN Cares reaches new UN facility in Valencia, Spain
10 May, 2012

UNSB-V is a new UN Information and telecommunications facility in Valencia, Spain. It works in conjunction with UNLB in Brindisi . The two bases ensure the safety of data in the event of a catastrophic incident and they provide information and communications technology support to more than 100.000 field personnel deployed around the world.

On 25 and 26 April 2012, the first two UN Cares training sessions were delivered to 25 employees by Carola de Wit, the UN Cares focal point in Brindisi. More sessions will come in the near future for staff in Valencia. Staff members in Valencia appreciated that all material was available in Spanish too; they liked the interactive structure and the discussion on stigma and discrimination. The evaluation of the learning sessions was very positive. A participant mentioned: "I'm glad this training is mandatory, I will take the booklet home and share this experience with my family". more...

UN Plus - A brand new website
10 May, 2012

UN Plus, the UN system HIV positive staff group just finished updating its website and it looks great. You can visit it at www.unplus.org. John Oshima, UN Plus' Coordinator tells us that the new website has a public and a private space. The public space contains news and articles about UN Plus and the issues this group deals with. Additionally there is a private space for members only, where UN Plus members can share information, interact, ask questions, and more. more...

INDONESIA. UN Secretary General addressed the UN staff
10 May, 2012

In a recent visit, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon addressed the UN staff in based in Indonesia. The UN Cares chairperson, Risya Ariyani Kori from ILO, asked the UNSG the following question:

The SG reported that one of his first moving experiences in the UN was the meeting with the People Living with HIV, UN Positive Staff and members of the UN Cares Team. This motivated him to make the UN the best place of work where staff living with HIV would be able to work without fear of discrimination and stigma. Recognising the problems of inconsistency with the health care insurances given the locations of the staff, agency affiliation and the type of contract staff have; he added "we promote One UN, the system needs to change".

He promised to remind UNAIDS to look into this matter very carefully, with a sense of urgency, so that all our staff living HIV positively can live without any fear of being discriminated against, without any stigma. more...

The Middle East and Northern Africa renew their commitment to UN Cares
7 December, 2011

During a lively three-day sub-regional workshop (30 Oct – 1 Nov) about the implementation of UN Cares in remote and difficult settings, over twenty participants gathered to discuss strategies for executing UN Cares in this key part of the world. We had very dynamic and, at times, heated discussions about how to balance the needs of supporting our staff with the constraints particular to this sub-regional and, indeed, much of MENA, which is currently enduring so much insecurity, transition and transformation. The workshop provided the participants a platform for sharing experiences and lessons learned from the six countries in the region with somewhat similar working environments and cultural contexts. This candid exchange of experience was essential to test the newly developed implementation guidelines to address complex HIV-response needs of United Nations personnel working and living in remote UN locations and in emergency humanitarian contexts. more...