In celebration of the 60th celebration of UN peacekeeping, on the break of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, the Better World Campaign today appear a Public Service Announcement (PSA) featuring George Clooney advantaged “Peace is Hard.”
Washington, DC/New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 29, 2008 -- In celebration of the 60th celebration of UN peacekeeping, on the break of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, the Better World Campaign today appear a Public Service Announcement (PSA) featuring George Clooney advantaged “Peace is Hard.” The PSA, hosted at www.youtube.com/unbluehelmets, reminds citizens about the apple that over 110,000 UN peacekeepers are currently deployed in some of the world’s a lot of alarming places to assure millions of conflict-affected victims, conciliate militants, and facilitate accord treaties that end battle and advance adaptation and reconstruction.
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We owe all of the United Nations peacekeepers a debt of acknowledgment for the alarming plan they do to ensure that accord is preserved, civilians are protected, and elections are respected These adventurous men and women go to places area few others will and accident their lives for peace. I am appreciative to abide my plan with the UN to admonish those in the United States and about the apple that accord is not easy, and like war, have to be waged. In January of this year, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed filmmaker, abecedarian and animal rights advocate George Clooney as a United Nations Messenger of Peace with a appropriate focus on United Nations peacekeeping. Also in January, Clooney catholic with the UN to appointment peacekeeping missions in the Sudan.
“We owe all of the United Nations peacekeepers a debt of acknowledgment for the alarming plan they do to ensure that accord is preserved, civilians are protected, and elections are respected,” said Clooney. “These adventurous men and women go to places area few others will and accident their lives for peace. I am appreciative to abide my plan with the UN to admonish those in the United States and about the apple that accord is not easy, and like war, have to be waged.”
In 2002, the General Assembly of the United Nations appointed May 29th as the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, to pay accolade to all the men and women who accept served and abide to serve in United Nations peacekeeping operations for their top akin of professionalism, adherence and courage, and to account the anamnesis of the two thousand and four hundred men and women who accept died confined the could cause of peace. In 2007, 87 UN Peacekeepers died in the field. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces in 1988.
The PSA was commissioned by the Better World Campaign and produced with cooperation from the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the UN Department of Field Support. The organizations apprehend the PSA to ability a all-around admirers through YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, ThinkMTV and a array of online and amusing networking portals.
SS+K, a creatively-driven, cardinal communications firm, with offices in New York City, Boston and Los Angeles, conceived and produced the PSA pro bono for BWC.
For added advice about UN Peacekeeping’s 60th anniversary, appointment www.un.org/Peacekeeping.
To apprentice added about the US role in UN Peacekeeping, appointment www.betterworldcampaign.org/peace.
About the Better World Campaign
The Better World Campaign, a sister alignment of the United Nations Foundation, works to strengthen the accord amid the United States and the United Nations through outreach, communications, and advocacy. It encourages U.S. administration to enhance the UN’s adeptness to backpack out its invaluable all-embracing plan on account of peace, progress, freedom, and justice. In these efforts, BWC engages action makers, the media, and the American accessible to access acquaintance of and abutment for the United Nations. For added information, appointment www.betterworldcampaign.org.
