As many of you know, earlier this year President Obama launched the SAVE Award — a program that offered every Federal employee the chance to submit ideas about how government can save money and perform better. Over the course of three weeks, Federal employees submitted more than 38,000 ideas. Staff at the Office of Management […]
We just caught up with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar as he was getting ready to headline today’s keynote event at the U.S. Center in Copenhagen. The Secretary has had a packed schedule since he arrived in Copenhagen — including his first tour of an offshore wind facility, which, he said, was an incredible educational experience […]
This morning the President spoke at the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony at the Oslo City Hall. His speech accepting the prize was well worth reading in full, an excerpt is below: Of course, we know that for most of history, this concept of “just war” was rarely observed. The capacity of human beings to think […]
The following Security Council press statement on the 8 December bombings in Baghdad was read out yesterday by Council President Michel Kafando (Burkina Faso): The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the series of terrorist attacks that occurred on 8 December 2009 in Baghdad, which caused numerous deaths and injuries and damage. […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General condemns in the strongest terms the bomb attacks in Baghdad today that have left over 120 people dead and scores more injured. No cause can justify these attacks on civilians. The attacks appear to be aimed at undermining the […]
United Nations Television (UN TV), the official television channel of the United Nations, is now featured as a channel on the online television news service aggregator Livestation. Livestation is a service that aggregates TV news channels from global sources on the internet and on mobile. Livestation enables news networks to increase reach amongst a […]
The United Nations must be prepared to make efficiency gains in the next five years to free up funds to better respond to the world?s needs, said Gareth Thomas, Minister of State for International Development of the United Kingdom, addressing journalists on priorities for a more effective international humanitarian response. Speaking at a Headquarters press […]
On Friday, December 4th, the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) held a Youth and HIV/AIDS Meeting at the White House campus. Over 35 young people flew to Washington, DC to participate in our meeting. The meeting attendees were young people from all regions of the country and of diverse sexual orientation and gender identities. […]
Click here to see the video. Two causes all Americans can get behind are initiatives to improve our health care system and create jobs in a struggling economy. In an effort to accomplish both at once, today President Obama announced that $600 million in stimulus money will go towards improving community health centers across the […]
Each year millions of visitors stream through the rotunda of the National Archives in Washington, DC, to view the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence. These foundational documents of our democracy are on public display because of the importance of openness in government. Openness promotes accountability by enabling journalists, researchers, government […]
