Champion Archives - Career Meaning

Somali-born champion of refugee education wins top UNHCR award

·November 28, 2023·2 min read

Abdullahi Mire grew up in the sprawling Dadaab refugee complex in northeastern Kenya with its population today of more than 240,000 registered refugees, mostly from Somalia. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) coordinates operations there together with partners, relying also on the support of the Kenyan Government and host communities. The...

Environmental champion hails rivers as ‘arteries of our planet’

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·September 15, 2023·5 min read

The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) official Patron of the Oceans, Mr. Pugh explained that he’d undertaken the marathon swim ending at the tip of Manhattan, to emphasise the urgent need to protect the world’s waterways ahead of the UN’s landmark High Seas Treaty and Climate Ambition Summit next week. Sporting his...

Champion woman boxer knocks out hate in Central America

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·August 20, 2023·4 min read

“Knock out hate,” declares Yokasta Valle who has suffered discrimination both for being a woman in a male-dominated sport and as a migrant who journeyed to Costa Rica from Nicaragua. “Many of my colleagues told me that if they, as men, could not become champions, even less so could I...

In Nigeria, UN deputy chief and Malala champion girls’ right to education

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·July 13, 2023·5 min read

The Pakistani education advocate – who was shot by the Taliban for her activism – was speaking exactly 10 years after her landmark ‘Malala Day’ address to youth at UN Headquarters in New York, where she called for global action against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism. Passionate message UN Deputy Secretary-General...

Best way to protect children caught in conflict is to ‘champion peace’ |

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·July 19, 2022·5 min read

In presenting the Secretary-General’s report, Virginia Gamba, highlighted current trends, patterns of grave violations, and existing and emerging challenges in “the protection of children used and abused by, in and for armed conflict”. Prolific abuses From South Sudan to Afghanistan and elsewhere, last year the UN verified 23,982 grave violations...

Champion young people as ‘drivers of change’, UN chief urges |

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·July 17, 2022·3 min read

From climate change to conflicts to persistent poverty, young people are “disproportionately impacted by interlinked global crises,” his Youth Envoy, Jayathma Wickramanayake, told a commemorative event in New York, speaking on behalf of the UN chief. “Today, we highlight the importance of transforming youth skills for the future of work,”...