Daily Archives: 23rd December 2019

FIRST PERSON: Chef’s ‘labour of love’ key ingredient for life in the kitchen

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23 December 2019
Women
The International Labour Organization is marking its centenary in 2019 and as part of the commemoration has launched a photography project called “Dignity at Work: The American Experience” to document the working life of people across the United States. UN News joined the ILO on a visit to the southern US state of Louisiana.
Roseann Rostoker moved to New Orleans in 2010 to open the Red Gravy café. According to some estimates, women make up just 20 per cent of chefs working in the United States.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/12/1053871

The 2010 – 2020 UN News Decade in Review, part one

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Collage of photo of: Malala Yousafzai attends the Delivering on the Global Education Promise” (on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the Secretary-General’s Global Education First Initiative (GEFI)) (co-organized by the Global Education First Initiative’s Secretariat and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) UN Photo/Amanda Voisard); People walk along downtown streets after an earthquake measuring 7 plus on the Richter scale rocked Port au Prince Haiti on Tuesday January 12, 2009 (UN Photo/Logan Abassi); Smoke drifts into the sky from buildings and houses hit by shelling in Homs town. (UN Photo/David Manyua 09June 2012); A Senegalese UN peacekeeper patrols along with a Malian soldier in Kidal in July 2013. (Photo: MINUSMA/Marco Dormino);

https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/12/1053481

Afghan President leads election; UN mission chief urges all to ‘safeguard’ final stage of process

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22 December 2019
Peace and Security
Welcoming the preliminary results for Afghanistan’s presidential election on Sunday, the head of the United Nations mission in the country urged the authorities and all actors to “protect the integrity of the final stage of the process.”
Afghanistan “braved security threats” in September to cast their votes in the country’s presidential ballot for a better future, Tadamichi Yamamoto, head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), said on Sunday, urging everyone to “safeguard and complete the election”.
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