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Social media highlights from Jordan, Papua New Guinea, Washington, DC and more

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Here’s a selection of photos and videos you may have missed posted on UN social media accounts from around the UN system over the past few weeks and shared with our social media team. Thank you to all who contributed!

Erica Kochi and Christopher Fabian, co-leads of UNICEF’s Innovation Unit, have been selected for this year’s prestigious TIME 100, a list of the hundred most influential people in the world! Congratulations to both of them and thanks to UNICEF for posting this article and more on their website.

Did you know that United Nations Visitors Centre in New York City organizes tours for children? Here students come to learn about the work of the UN. Thanks to tour guide Maki for posting this photo and more on her Twitter account (@VisitUNMaki).

Angelina Jolie, actress and Special Envoy of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) recently met with UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General Zainab Hawa Bangura to discuss sexual violence in conflict. Thanks to @endrapeinwar for posting this photo and more on their Twitter account.

Here’s a look inside the Emergency Operations Centre in WHO’s Regional Office for the Western Pacific focusing on the current H7N9 avian influenza response. Thanks to World Health Organization (@WHO) for posting this photo and more on their Twitter account.

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) recently joined forces with soccer team D.C. United to promote its Know Your Numbers blood pressure prevention awareness campaign during a match against New York Red Bulls. Thanks to @PAHO for posting this photo and more on their Twitter account.

The website Too Young to Wed has been nominated for a Webby Award! Vote today and join the call to end child marriage. Thanks to United Nations Populations Fund (@UNFPA) for posting the nomination and find out more on their Twitter account.

Through World Food Programme’s  school feeding programme, students in Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan receive a mid-day snack to give them the boost of energy they need to concentrate and actively participate in class. Thanks to @WFP for posting this and more in their photo album and on their Twitter account.

Ahmad Alhendawi, United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, went to Papua New Guinea recently to attend the Commonwealth Youth Ministers Meeting and discuss youth development. He also took time to meet with children in the area. Thanks to Ahmad for posting this photo and more on his Twitter account (@AhmadAlhendawi).

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Highlights from the UN Forum on Forests — #UNFF10 — in Istanbul

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Most people don’t live in, or even near, a forest. While it is true that 1.6 billion people depend on forests for their livelihoods, for most people, forests are out of sight, out of mind.

And yet if people had to pay for what forests provide,  for wood, paper, clean water, clean air, biodiversity, it would amount to a pretty penny, and this is at the heart of the discussions now taking place at the United Nations Forum on Forests in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, put it this way at the opening of the Forum: “We must all see and understand that if the process we call growth and development continues in this way, will not have a liveable world.” Citing a Native American saying, he added, “when all the trees are cut, all animals are hunted, all waters are polluted and the air becomes unbreathable you will understand that money is something that you cannot eat.”

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, says the Forum is meeting “at a critical time”.  He said the vital issues forests influenced – from livelihoods to biodiversity and climate change – had been highlighted in the outcome of Rio+20 and would be considered during negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda.

Under-Secretary-General Wu Hongbo
Under-Secretary-General Wu Hongbo
Forum Chair Mario Ruales Carranza (Ecuador)
Forum Chair Mario Ruales Carranza (Ecuador)

International Forest Short Film Festival – Winners

The Forests Secretariat partnered with the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival to honor creative efforts of filmmakers who visually capture how forests inspire, shelter, nurture and contribute to our lives. This year’s Film Festival is for short films of five minutes or less. The winners of the Film Festival include Rowan Pybus of South Africa, Paul Rosolie of the United States, Elio Alonso Vasquez Miranda of Peru, Sébastien Pins of Belgium, and Dan Childs and Nick Werber of the United Kingdom. More information on the winners can be found here.
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