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FEATURE: In Ukraine, a ‘Living Library’ helps ease tensions between displaced persons and hosts

FEATURE: In Ukraine, a ‘Living Library’ helps ease tensions between displaced persons and hosts

May 17, 2016, at 01:23 pm

New York, May 17 (Just Earth News): Experiencing the story of a person displaced in Ukraine – the suffering, joys, feelings of alienation and social exclusion, but also the sense of belonging – is possible for communities hosting the displaced persons due to a United Nations project that has turned testimonies into “books” in a so-called Living Library. “People become becoming living books. They give all these stories and record them and bring them all together into a library that other people can consult,” explained Janthomas Hiemstra, Country Director in Ukraine for the UN Development Programme (UNDP), which supports the Living Library project. The project is run by a local non-government organization.

Libya: UN development programme launches initiative to support country’s stabilization

Libya: UN development programme launches initiative to support country’s stabilization

Apr 13, 2016, at 01:49 pm

New York, Apr 13 (Just Earth News/IBNS):At a high-level meeting in Tunis, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched an initiative to assist with the stabilization of Libya and its new unity Government, the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said on Tuesday.

At 50, UN development programme revamps itself to tackle new sustainability goals

At 50, UN development programme revamps itself to tackle new sustainability goals

Feb 25, 2016, at 03:10 pm

New York, Feb 25 (Just Earth News/IBNS) The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with its presence in more than 170 poor and vulnerable countries, must rise to the challenge of advancing a “big, new, more complex, and transformational” sustainable development agenda, the head of the agency said on Wednesday at a ministerial meeting to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its founding.