A look back at 2012 when United Nations peacekeepers from Brazil held a Christmas Day party for children from difficult neighbourhoods around Port au Prince, Haiti.

Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate it!

📷 UN Photo/Logan Abassi

We celebrate a decade of Marine World Heritage!

Today, the World Heritage List encompasses 49 sites in 37 countries that together make up about 10% by surface area of all the world’s marine protected areas, ranging from the tropics to the Arctic, including icons like the Great Barrier Reef (Australia) and Galápagos Islands (Ecuador) as well as lesser-known treasures like the Iceland’s Surtsey and Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park in the Philippines.

For the past decade, the World Heritage Marine Programme has worked to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and resources across this community, creating a global network of conservation leaders that is increasingly equipped to navigate a changing ocean.

Learn more via +UNESCO here: http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1609

For the first time since the battle for Aleppo erupted in 2012, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has been able to enter the old city of Aleppo.

Centuries of civilization now stand in ruins after four years of intense fighting over Aleppo, once Syria’s largest city and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

Learn more here via +United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 

Wage inequality in the workplace: a new report shows global wage growth has fallen to its lowest level in four years.

Learn more from +ILO here: http://ow.ly/AVgY307iBal

On International Migrants Day, support TOGETHER - a global campaign that aims to change negative perceptions and attitudes towards migrants and refugees and remember the migrants who have died or have gone missing on dangerous journeys.

Learn more here: http://www.iom.int/migrantsday and http://together.un.org/

#ForMigration
#JoinTogether

Launched this week is the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Handbook of Statistics. It offers data on trade, investment and economic development and provides users - policymakers, researchers, academics, government officials, journalists, and others - with access to cross-comparable data sets.

Learn more here: http://ow.ly/JMlv307acmu

Year in Review:

In October #UnitedNations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon showed his appreciation for nature while visiting the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador for the first time.

"It is our responsibility to preserve the Galapagos, truly unique world heritage for current and future generations", he said.

The Secretary-General was in Ecuador for the #Habitat3 UN conference on sustainable urban development -- to make cities more sustainable and in turn create safer, cleaner, more resilient and offering opportunities for all.

Find out more here: bitly.com/habitatthree

Photo: Giles Clarke / Getty Images Reportage

Let's #jointogether  on International Human Solidarity Day!

Human solidarity is key to building lives of dignity for all on a healthy planet. Learn more here: http://bit.ly/2hNdyjj

#GlobalGoals

This week the International Labour Organization(ILO) released its annual report on wages. Find out more here: http://ow.ly/pj19307c42h

Take a look at 70 years of UNICEF work here: https://www.unicef.org/about-us/70-years-for-every-child

#ForEveryChild