Globetree and the UN

It started 1990. Two girls of Globetree accompanied two presidents to the official signing of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child at United Nations in New York. 1998 UN Secr. Gen. Kofi Annan took water from the fountain at the United Nations, New York, to be united with waters of the world at the Future Vessel event. 2000 Globetree received UNEP Global 500 Roll of Honour Award and was asked by UNEP 2001 to establish and run a Children’s Meeting Place on the grounds of the United Nations, Nairobi in Kenya. The Meeting is a a tree where children from all walks of life meet and dialogue with leaders of the world. Globetree has DPI and ECOSOC statues to the UN since 1996/1999.

Convention of the Right’s of the Child

UNEP Global Roll of Honour Award

Safe Water 2000 Conference

Kofi Annan

OPENING CEREMONY OF UN HABITATS 18TH SESSION OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS

GLOBETREE ACTIVITIES AT THE UNITED NATIONS IN NAIROBI

May 2001

September 2001

April 2003

Planning for a Children’s Meeting Place

UNEP Exec. Dir. Dr. Klaus Toepfer at the Inauguration of the Children’s Meeting Place

Prof. Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement speaks at the Children’s Meeting Place

November 2003

November 2004

November 2004

Childrens Meeting Place, UN, Nairobi

UNEP Deputy. Exec. Dir. Shafquat Kakakhel at the Second Preparatory Roots Meeting

Inauguration of the Indigenous 7 Stones Fireplace at the Children’s Meeting Place

International Roots Meeting

June 2005

November  2005

November 2006

Roots Meeting och Way Forward

Lord Mayor of Stockholm at UNEP to prepare for the World Championship in Cooperation in Stockholm

Preparatory Meeting for the World Championship in Cooperation in Kampala

February 2007

Mars 2009

November 2009

UNEP Conference on Globalization and the Environment

Children’s Gardens utställning Vi bor på gatan…

UNEP Exec. Dir. Achim Steiner welcomes the Future Vessel to UNON

November 2011

January 2013

January 2015

Astronaut Loren Acton is the Guest of Honour at the 10 year’s anniversary of the Children’s Meeting Place

Display of suggestions to a sign board for the Children’s Meeting Place by inmates at six female prisons in Sweden

Children from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Sweden give ideas to make the Children’s Meeting Place more visible and fun

Children from 25 nations present ideas to make the Children’s Meeting Place more visible and fun at the Stockholm City Hall

March 2016

November 2016 – GlobeDay

Children from 25 nations present ideas to make the Children’s Meeting Place more visible and fun at the Stockholm City Hall

Mr Stephen Stannah, Chief, Facilities Management and Deputy Chief Ms Talia Owen-Frigyik present a possible site for the development of the Children´s Meeting Place

Kajsa Dahlström tells the children she will go to Nairobi for the development of the Children’s Meeting Place

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