Various departments and initiatives of the United Nations (U.N.) produce
free email newsletters. These newsletters, collectively, cover a range
of topics: educational resources for young students, world heritage
sites, environmental policy, health, gender issues, and, ofcourse, ICT
for development, to name but a few.
When taking on an online volunteering assignment with an organization
in a developing country, read through this list and see if there are
newsletters that might help you in your tasks.
To add a United Nations email publication to this list, .
Announcements of new resources and upcoming events from the United
Nations Cyberschoolbus. This initiative is the online education component
of the Global Teaching and Learning Project, whose mission is to promote
education about international issues and the U.N.. The Project produces
high quality teaching materials and activities designed for educational
use (at primary, intermediate and secondary school levels) and for
training teachers. The vision of this Project is to provide exceptional
educational resources (both online and in print) to students growing
up in a world undergoing increased globalization.
Gender Beat is a periodic email bulletin about the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) and UN-system gender-related programs,
activities, people, events, and resources. It provides news about
UNDP's work for Gender Equality: programmes, projects, workshops,
meetings at country, regional and global levels; other events with
implications for gender; and information about gender activities,
organisations and partnerships from outside the UN-system. It also
includes a section on gender resources: new publications; training
courses; organisations; electronic discussion lists and web-sites.
A free monthly e-newsletter (in English, French & Spanish) from World Volunteer
Web, the Global Volunteer Update paints a snapshot of volunteer initiatives happening
around the world. Available in both text and HTML versions, the newsletter provides
summaries of recent news, events, articles and documents.
The Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme, under the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),
is a research programme to promote international comparative social
science research. Its primary emphasis is to support large-scale,
long-term autonomous research and to transfer the relevant findings
and data to decision-makers. The overall long-term objective of MOST
is to establish sustainable links between the scientific and policy
communities and to emphasize the relevance of social science research
Provides information about additions to UNESCO Libraries Portal, an
online resource designed to enhance access to information related
to library resources available on the Web as well as to issues affecting
librarianship. The site provides links to websites of libraries and
information centres around the world and serves as a portal for browsing
and searching a range of categories including websites of national
libraries, government information services, library associations and
on-line resources. It also provides news about conferences and training
opportunities. Special sections feature news and articles of interest
'Observatory Updates' via email provide notices on a weekly basis
of the new documents, websites and conferences included in UNESCO's
Observatory on the Information Society.
The monthly information magazine of the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It is published in
English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Portuguese. The web site provides
a search tool for past issues.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) offers
a list of links to online newsletters relating to environmental and
climate change subjects. However, note that NONE of these newsletters
are produced by UNFCCC.
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) works
to improve the living conditions of people and promote global prosperity
through offering tailor-made solutions for the sustainable industrial
development of developing countries and countries with economies in
transition. Areas of focus include metrology, standarization, certification
& accreditation; industrial policy formulation and implementation;
investment and technology promotion; statistics and information networks;
improvement & quality management; upgrading agro-industries, entrepreneurship
development; SME policy framework; women entrepreneurship development;
cleaner production; energy efficiency; pollution control & waste management;
and rural energy.
The bimonthly electronic news bulletin of the United Nations Development
Fund for Women (UNIFEM) which provides up-to-date information briefs
on UNIFEM initiatives, successes, events, projects and activities
A free online service sponsored by the United Nations Foundation and
its sister organization, the Better World Fund, which are dedicated
to supporting United Nations efforts on behalf of the environment,
population stabilization and children's health. UN Wire is produced
independently by National Journal Group. UN Wire provides a concise
daily email summarizing its latest news items, all available at http://www.unfoundation.org
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) provides WebWorld as an international gateway
regarding Communication and Information in the Knowledge Society.
The World Bank group sponsors several email newsletters, including
an overall weekly update and specialized e-publications, such as:
Access: e-Newsletter of the Water and Sanitation Program, Adapting
to Change Newsletter, Research Conflict Newsletter, East Asia Social
Policy Update, Economic Policy and Prospects Newsletter, HNP Flash
(Health, Nutrition, and Population), Land Policy Network Newsletter,
Latin America and the Caribbean Human Development Notes, NIPR Newsletter
(New Ideas in Pollution Regulation), Participation in the Poverty
Reduction Strategy Papers, PovertyNet Newsletter, WorLD Newsletter
(World Links for Development) and AIDS Economics Newsletter.
WHO headquarters and regional offices produce more than 40 email newsletters
on specific subjects, from ACTION AGAINST INFECTION to WHO NEWSLETTER
UNESCO pays particular attention to the protection of world heritage sites and monuments from new global threats that may affect the natural and cultural heritage. The conservation of sites and monuments helps social cohesion..