New stamps from UNPA…

 

Date of Issue : 9 August 2013

 

UNPA  issued   stamps and souvenir sheets  to commemorate World Space Week. World Space Week is an annual event, declared by the UN General Assembly and is observed during the week of 4-10 October.

World Space Week is the largest annual space event in the world. Some of its goals are to educate people about the benefits that they receive from space, encourage greater use of space for sustainable economic development, excite young people about science to inspire the workforce of tomorrow, and to foster international cooperation about space outreach and education.

Today, the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs in Vienna provides the overall global coordination of World Space Week, under the guidance of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, and with the support of World Space Week Association, a non-government organization.

This year's United Nations "Space" stamps feature images of Nebulae. A nebula is a gigantic interstellar cloud of dust particles and gases in space. It is made up of mainly hydrogen and helium gases. The term nebula comes from the Latin word for cloud. Nebulae come in many different shapes and sizes and can be light years across (trillions of miles). Some nebulas are regions where new stars are being formed, while others are the remains of dead or dying stars.

World Humanitarian Day

 

On 19 August 2013, UNPA will issue a special personalized stamp sheet to commemorate World Humanitarian Day. The sheet is composed of ten stamps in the denomination of US$ 1.10.

World Humanitarian Day is a time to recognize those who face danger and adversity in order to help others. The day was designated by the General Assembly to coincide with the anniversary of the 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq.

19 August, 2013 marks 10 years since that tragic event, which claimed 22 lives. This year, the international community will pause to remember those who died, as well as the dozens of aid workers, who have died in the years since.

But World Humanitarian Day is also an opportunity to celebrate the spirit that inspires humanitarian work around the globe.This year the UN and its humanitarian partners are launching a ground-breaking campaign called “The world needs more…” This is a first-of-its-kind project that will quite literally turn words into aid.