How a piece of the Moon landed at UN Headquarters

adminJanuary 21, 2024September 18, 202407 mins

Displayed for all visitors to see, the tiny charcoal coloured block of Moon rock spent three decades in storage and made its re-appearance after a rigorous security process. To Anne Soiberg-Friedkin, who works in facilities management at UN Headquarters, having a piece of the Moon reflects the immense feats of humanity. “It’s so significant, it…

First Person: ‘A piece of me also died,’ in 2003 UN Canal Hotel bombing

adminAugust 17, 2023September 15, 202404 mins

Laura Dolci’s husband, Jean-Selim Kanaan, had been deployed by the UN Office for Project Services to work as Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq. Twenty years after the attack and to mark World Humanitarian Day which is commemorated annually on 19 August, she remembers her husband. “In the terrorist attack against…