After the exciting visit to the cradle of democracy in Athens, Elyx accepts a long overdue invitation from a group of environmental activists called Contramundo up in Northern Brazil. But Elyx cannot go to back to Brazil without stopping in at UNIC-Rio, where it had already made a whole bunch of friends. At UNIC Rio
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On 15 September 2015, our world is celebrating the UN International Day of Democracy. This was of course the day Elyx chose to travel to Athens and celebrate democracy at its birthplace. Elyx arrived at the airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” early in the morning and was picked up by Dimitri Fatouros, UNRIC Communication Officer for Greece
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Elyx has arrived in Ghana, a republic located in West Africa. The UN digital ambassador was immediately welcomed by UNIC and guided through the colourful and lively streets of Accra. As they explain, the country is endowed with abundant natural and mineral resources such as cocoa, oil, natural gas, gold and diamonds. This together with
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A 400-mile hop and Elyx has gone from Moscow to spend the day in Minsk, the capital city of Belarus. A founding member of the UN since 1945, Belarus has been host since 1992 to a number of UN family Agencies, Funds and Programs such as UNDP, UNHCR, UNFPA and UNAIDS. Elyx also learned that Belarus was the first in
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On this bright Friday Elyx has arrived in the capital of the Russian Federation, Moscow’s Red Square which is recorded in UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Here, Elyx was relishing the colourful Saint Basil’s Cathedral that majestically rises into the sky. It is also in this city that most of the UN agencies are located and
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Today the UN’s digital ambassador Elyx has arrived in Sri Lanka’s capital city of Colombo, meeting the UN family team in the country which embraces 15 specialized agencies, funds and special programs. Everyone was ecstatic to meet the curious digital ambassador, and Elyx arrived in the middle of the preparations for a ‘70-60’ special celebration.
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Elyx has arrived in South Africa, the southernmost country in Africa, and has a busy day ahead. Instead of relaxing by the 2789 km of coast the 25th-largest country in the world where 11 official languages are spoken has to offer, Elyx is meeting up with the UNIC Pretoria team for an educative tour around
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Today Elyx met with blue helmets of the UN peacekeeping mission MONUSCO. UN peacekeepers have been present in DRC since 1999. First as MONUC and since 2010 as MONUSCO. The ‘S’ in MONUSCO stands for stabilization and represents the new phase of peacekeeping. UN peacekeeping aims to aid countries to navigate the path from conflict
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Elyx, the UN digital ambassador, arrived in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and immediately joined members of the UN for a tour of the country. Despite a vast amount of natural and mineral resources, DRC ranked 186th out of 187 countries on the Human Development Index. Ongoing conflict and general insecurity have led to
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After learning more about the WFP´s role in the reconstruction of Indonesia, Elyx had to hurry up to attend a great UN event in Portugal. This time our digital ambassador was a special guest to the UNEARTH exhibition that celebrates the organization’s 70th anniversary, showing pictures and posters about four action pillars: human rights, peace
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