Millennium Campaign Hosts Screening of Clouds Over Sidra for Woodside Intermediate School 125 in Queens
On 12 November Date, the UNMC and UN Visitors Center co-hosted a special workshop on refugees with eighth graders from the Woodside Intermediate School 125. Following a screening of Clouds Over Sidra, three young refugees in various statuses in their legal application processes spoke to the students about their personal experiences. The workshop was a part of the Teen Thursdays Program, a collaboration […]
Google Cardboard Distributed to General Assembly during Refugee Meeting
On Thursday November 19th, the United Nations Millennium Campaign (UNMC) partnered with the Office of the President of the UN General Assembly to make Virtual Reality available to the entire General Assembly via google cardboard. This effort brought the voice of a Syrian refugee straight to decision makers and marks the first time the UN […]
Ambassador Power Visits We the Peoples’ Hub
On the 30th of September, the UN Millennium Campaign welcomed US Ambassador to the United Nations H.E Samantha Power at the We the Peoples Hub. Ambassador Power was given a private walkthrough of the Hub along with reporters from Associated Press to see many of the instillations present at the hub. During her visit, she […]
Clouds Over Sidra Screened at World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of New Champions
From September 10th-12th, the Millennium Campaign had the pleasure to present a Virtual Reality screening of the film, Clouds Over Sidra at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2015 in Dalian, China. Clouds Over Sidra,which was created to support the United Nations Secretary-General’s MDG Advocacy Group’s call for partnerships to build resilience in […]
Data Playground, Virtual Reality, and Humans of MY World Heading to Bangkok!
By Kristen Grennan, Global Youth Advocate The Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development is being held in Bangkok, Thailand from May 21-22 and the UN Millennium Campaign will be there displaying the peoples’ voices through the Data Playground, virtual reality, and Humans of MY World. What is the Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development? The forum […]