Programme area: UN Leadership

The president of the Republic of Tunisia, H.E. Mr Béji Caïd Essebsi visited Uppsala on 6 November as part of the official state visit.

In the evening of 27 October, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the stream of regular UN meetings gave way to a very different event in the great ECOSOC chamber.

Dag Hammarskjöld is portrayed on the 1000-krona banknote that was launched in October by the Swedish Riksbank.

Executive Director Henrik Hammargren’s article on Dag Hammarskjöld’s legacy has been published in a special double issue of the UN Chronicle, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations.

“’Something to live for, great enough to die for’ – UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld Revisited” was the theme of a panel organised by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation at the Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) in The Hague/Netherlands. The Special Lunch Panel was held on 13 June at […]

This month, as part of the “Stand Up for Truth” tour, a group prominent whistleblowers – Daniel Ellsberg, Thomas Drake, Coleen Rowley and Jesselyn Raddack shared their stories at a roundtable in the Swedish Parliament calling for the strengthening protection of whistleblowers. The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation co-organized the event with the Right Livelihood Award Foundation who, in 2006, awarded Daniel Ellsberg the Right Livelihood Award.