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What transformative future would you like to see?

🇺🇳 Come to tell us on July 14 at World Youth Skills Day (WYSD 2023), a hybrid event https://t.co/NDMIdrOhJT is co-organising this year at the United Nations Vienna.

For more details, please go to https://t.co/7xeUb5pZwX

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Regards from UN Vienna 🇺🇳

🙏 Special thanks to everyone, Speakers and Audience Members alike, who are joining us today for:

🙌🏼” World Youth Skills Day 23: Collaboration for Agenda 2030”

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🙏 Grateful for receiving such powerful video messages.

🗓️ 14 July, 9:30-17:00 (CEST)

🇺🇳 In person (registration closed): CR1 - VIC

💻 Online: https://t.co/KzDHlJ2IAw

ℹ️ To find out more about their backgrounds, please visit https://t.co/j4hPu8Vtd1

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Meet our Moderators and Co-Lead Organisers.

🗓️ 14 July, 9:30-17:00 (CEST)

🇺🇳 In person (registration closed): CR1 - VIC

💻 Online: https://t.co/KzDHlJ2IAw

ℹ️ To find out more about their backgrounds, please visit https://t.co/j4hPu8Vtd1

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Activists, researchers, founders: meet the #wysd2023 Speakers of Session 3.

🗓️ 14 July, 3-5pm (CEST)

🇺🇳 In person (registration closed): CR1 - VIC

💻 no available online component

ℹ️ To find out more about our speakers’ backgrounds, please visit https://t.co/j4hPu8Vtd1

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Artists, human rights advocates, journalists, UNODC professionals: meet the #wysd2023 Speakers of Session 2.

🗓️ 14 July, 11:30-1pm (CEST)

🇺🇳 In person (registration closed): CR1 - VIC

💻 Online: https://t.co/KzDHlJ2IAw, register by 10 July

ℹ️ More at https://t.co/j4hPu8Vtd1

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Medical consultants, journalists, CEOs, heads of institutions: meet the #wysd2023 Speakers of Session 1.

🗓️ 14 July, 9:30-17:00 (CEST)

🇺🇳 In person (registration closed): CR1 - VIC

💻 Online: https://t.co/KzDHlJ2IAw, register by 10 July

ℹ️ More at https://t.co/j4hPu8Vtd1

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📸 Don’t you know why #biodiversity matters? We believe your phone’s photos archive can definitely answer this better than any report.

🤍 Meaningful International Biodiversity Day 2023!

#nature #naturelover #environment #protect

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Today we’re attending the 23rd OSCE Conference entitled “It’s About People: National Leadership to End Human Trafficking”.

#HumanTrafficking #awareness #policymaking #survivorvoices

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🙌🏽 Activist @Ruchiragupta is officially launching Heera’s story today. Congratulations on this inspiring group!

We’re happy to have been able to bring social impact to this debut novel by creating a dedicated website for the book and supporting with outreach activities.

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In this recently launched e-learning module, we’re covering:

✔️ why & how the gender digital gap affects women across the globe

✔️ two case studies on how bridging the gap advances the fight against human trafficking

Access the module here: https://t.co/rA2pR5kR0Q

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We are privileged to have learnt so much about human trafficking and modern slavery from good and warm individuals with lived experience and others working to make a difference.

All these lessons are compiled in a new HUB format which you can check at: https://t.co/QAVlIyWtnR

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On the day of love, we would like to thank all the people who helped us build our community with love, empathy, energy that moves mountains & brilliant ideas.

Here are some of our highlights from 2022.

ℹ️ Read the whole report here: https://t.co/O0DejUj0cs

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Our dear team member Nour Barakeh graduated today from Central European University.

👏🏼We thought there would be no better way of recognising and appreciating her efforts than introducing her latest work.

ℹ️ You can read her entire paper here: https://t.co/2csKDsXgd9

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As a follow-up to our SDGs and Human Trafficking: Lived Experience Leads event in London in July 2022, we commissioned a related policy brief from the talented young academic Nour Barakeh.

ℹ️ To read the entire policy brief, please go to https://t.co/YD0PY1ToIt.

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2022 Highlights: thanks to everyone who was part of it.

#2022inShort #retrospect #sdgs #moments #climatechange #globalissues #supportsystem #team #people #thankyou

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#climatechange is characterised by injustice: those most impacted often create fewer CO2 emissions yet have less say in related global decisions.

Meanwhile, war receives more global funding than climate mitigation.

Discover more at https://t.co/hxGXSmdigU

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What are personal coping strategies for dealing with #climateanxiety?

Explore personal techniques, as well as large-scale solutions at: https://t.co/sNvQ76w12A.

#climateanxiety #climatecrisis #sdg13 #climateaction

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Next in our #COP27 series:

As someone who was born near the Kazakh area impacted by the nuclear weapons testing, it is always important for @hello_gera to see the nexus between nuclear weapons and climate change.

#COP27 #TogetherForImplementation

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Climate anxiety has been described as “a chronic fear of environmental doom”. For example, it can be the feeling of horror when an extreme weather event devastates planet, people and wildlife.

Let’s take a quick look at its causes 👇

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