To help eliminate single-use plastics at UN Headquarters in New York, reusable linen bags were handed out to staff on 3 June. The bags were donated by the Permanent Mission of India, aligning the initiative with this year’s…

Did you know that outreach to the global business community and “supplier diversity” (e.g. the strategy to engage with women-owned companies) are key to the UN’s supply chain management strategy? While the vision of the…

The Department of Operations Support (DOS) has recently received some of the oldest original UN documents. The Archives and Records Management Section (ARMS), in the Division of Administration, accepted this very special…

On 6 May, the United Nations joined together at Headquarters - and by broadcast to duty stations across the world - for the Secretary-General’s Annual Memorial Service to honour fallen colleagues. We all paused to recall the…