3 September 2010, Kyiv: UN Resident Coordinator Olivier Adam has visited several villages in Donetsk region where he participated in inauguration of projects implemented by local communities. These community-based projects were completed in cooperation with local authorities and the joint EU-UNDP `Community Based Approach to Local Development Project`.

3 September 2010, Kyiv: Ukraine’s international commitments to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) should be translated into a number of urgent social and economic reforms to set the country’s development priorities and enable investing in people and infrastructure, says a new UN-supported Report. The Economy Ministry of Ukraine and the United Nations Development Programme in Ukraine launched today an extensive assessment of what should be done to advance Ukraine’s MDGs performance.

23 August 2010, Brussels: Stefán Einarsson, 44, a graphic designer from Reykjavík, Iceland, was today announced the winner of the UN Ads Against Poverty Competition for his work ”We are still waiting”, which calls on world leaders to live up to their promises of ending poverty.

19 August 2010, New York – Kyiv: On the occasion of the World Humanitarian Day UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon called upon world citizens to remember those in need and those who continue to give aid, undeterred by the dangers they face -- for the sake of building a safer, better world.

12 August 2010, Kyiv: To mark the International Youth Day, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Mission in Ukraine presented an animated ‘e-card’ collection detailing the lives of twelve outstanding individuals, who made morality a defining component in their struggle to change the politics and art of the 20th century.

April 26, 2011 marks the 25th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Using Chernobyl lessons for the safety of nuclear power and other hazardous technologies, to protect the people and the environment from emergency - this is the main objective of the international conference "Twenty-five Years after Chernobyl Accident. Safety for the Future", Kyiv, April 20-22, 2011.

10 August 2010, Kyiv: The ways to more efficiently provide employment services to people with disabilities have been shown by the experts of UNDP and ILO Project: “Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities through Access to Employment” to the specialists of seven employment centres. 40 civil servants were actively shaping their skills of providing employment for people with disabilities, on August 5, at Kyiv Oblast Employment Center.

30 July 2010, Kyiv: United Nations Office in Ukraine is pleased to inform you about ongoing “Citizen Ambassadors to the United Nations” campaign, which is designed to encourage world citizen, including Ukrainians, to raise their voice and tell world leaders what do they think about Millennium Development Goals through a video message on YouTube.

27 July 2010, Kyiv:  Mobile operator MTS,  Ministry of Health  and the UN have launched Ukraine’s first medical telecommunications network. The capabilities of the network were displayed through a press conference that was channeled through video communication. This enabled representatives from Kyiv to participate in the event - organized by the Ministry of Health - and also allowed those who came to Uzhgorod and Donetsk regional hospitals to see how the telecommunications technology works in practice.

16 July 2010, Kyiv: The number of Ukrainians volunteering abroad has increased as Ukraine`s economy has become more international. Oleksiy Vitte, 56, a radiologist, has spent the last 12 years fighting tuberculosis and other life-threatening health ailments in Africa.

19 July 2010, Vienna: An underground HIV epidemic in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is intensifying at an alarming pace, fueled by drug use, high-risk sexual behavior and high levels of social stigma that discourage people from seeking prevention information and treatment, according to a new report released today by UNICEF.

14 July, 2010, Kyiv: Current national demographic trends push existing pension system in Ukraine to collapse. The forecast of the demographic situation and its influence on the pension system in Ukraine is not encouraging: the number of contribution payers will decrease by 25% by 2050, whereas the number of pension recipients will increase by 8%. In 2009 the Pension Fund`s deficit not covered by the insurance part reached 8% of the Fund`s total planned expenditure, reveals a new Report.

12 July, 2010, New York - Kyiv: Twenty-five community-based organisations representing 17 countries across the globe have won the 2010 Red Ribbon Award. Two of the winners are NGOs from Ukraine.

9 July, 2010, Simferopol: At the premises of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (ARC), Volodymyr Konstantynov, Head of the Crimean Parliament held a meeting with Olivier Adam, UN Resident Coordinator, UNDP Resident Representative in Ukraine. Head of the ARC Commission on Local Self-Governance and Administration Mykola Kolisnychenko and International Coordinator of the UNDP Crimea Integration and Development Pprogramme (CIDP) Adeline Gonay also took part in the meeting.

24 June 2010, Kyiv: The UN Food and Agriculture Organization conducted an inception workshop in order to present new project - “Increasing resilience of small scale farmers to the impacts of soaring food prices by the use of animal identification and registration in Ukraine”. During the workshop project goals and objectives were discussed, and also the experience in the development of animal identification system and livestock products traceability system in EU member states.