popmusiclife: Beyonce teams with United Nations for World Humanitarian Day

Beyonce is teaming up with the United Nations and humanitarian aid organizations to help launching a global campaign to shine a spotlight on humanitarian work and encourage people around the world to get involved by doing something good for others.

World Humanitarian Day is a global day to celebrate humanity and the spirit of people helping people.

The World Humanitarian Day music video for Beyoncé’s song “I Was Here” will be filmed in the UN General Assembly Hall in New York in front of a live audience. It will be released globally on 19 August. Beyoncé and songwriter Diane Warren are donating the video to the campaign.

“We all see the headlines and we think what can I really do to help?”, said Beyoncé. “World Humanitarian Day is an opportunity for all of us to work together to make a difference. This is our time to leave our mark on the world and show that we were here and we care.”

On 19 August, the campaign aims to reach 1 billion people in a day with a single message.

“World Humanitarian Day celebrates humanitarian work,” said Valerie Amos, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. “I hope everyone will pledge to complete at least one humanitarian action - however great or small - through www.whd-iwashere.org. Together we can create an unprecedented awareness of the plight of people affected by crises around the world.”

The campaign website provides everyone with an opportunity to unite and share his or her individual acts of good.

In 2008, the UN General Assembly designated 19 August World Humanitarian Day to raise public awareness of humanitarian assistance worldwide, recognize people who risk their lives to help people in need, wherever they are, and to mark the day in 2003 when 22 people lost their lives in an attack on the UN offices in Baghdad.

It takes only five simple steps to support World Humanitarian Day.

1. Visit www.whd-iwashere.org
2. Click on “Show Your Support”.
3. Choose to support World Humanitarian Day via Twitter, Facebook or both, and get the word out to your friends and followers.
4. Continue tweeting and posting in the lead-up to 19 August.
5. On 19 August, make your mark by doing something in your local community, and watch as everyone’s World Humanitarian Day messages are simultaneously shared around the world.

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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Beyonce teams with United Nations for World Humanitarian Day