2011 • May • In Chicago, Ishmael Beah was the keynote speaker at the US Fund Chicago Speaker Series on Child Protection. The aim of the speaker series is to cultivate and engage major donors. Over 100 people attended the event, including a number of high school students who had been assigned his book to read. (Newsnote)
2011 • March • In Geneva, Ishmael Beah, along with Deputy Executive Director Hilde Johnson and Ethiopia Representative Ted Chaiban, participated in the launch of the 2011 ‘Humanitarian Action for Children’ report (HAC). The report highlighted 32 countries and emphasized the importance of strengthening the resilience of communities. (Newsline)
2010 • September • In New York, at the United Nations, Ishmael Beah participated in the third Ministerial follow-up Forum to the Paris Commitments. (News story) (Press release)
2010 • June • Ishmael Beah attended a regional conference in N'Djamena, Chad on ending the recruitment and use of child soldiers in six Central African countries. While in N'Djamena, he visited a UNICEF-supported transit and orientation centre for demobilized child soldiers, a garage offering training to former child soldiers, and a group home where adolescents receive educational and vocational training so that they can become economically independent. (Newsline) (Newsline)
2010 • February • In New York, Ishmael Beah recorded a public service announcement, adding his voice to the worldwide appeal for donations to help the children in Haiti in the aftermath of the 12 January earthquake there. (Newsline)
2009 • November • Ishmael Beah was Master of Ceremony and spoke at the Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was held at the United Nations Trusteeship Council in New York. (Newsline)
2009 • October • While on personal travel in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ishmael Beah visited the UNICEF office and CAJED, a transit and orientation center for demobilized children. Mr. Beah was briefed on their work and spent time at CAJED talking and playing with the children. The Center, a Congolese non-governmental organization was created in 1992 to lodge, care for and support vulnerable children, including children separated from their families and those formerly associated with armed groups, before reunifying them with their families and/or reintegrating them into their home communities. CAJED has been a UNICEF partner since 2004.
2009 • May • In New York, Ishmael Beah recorded a public service announcement for the 20th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and was interviewed for the (Big Think), a global forum connecting people and ideas.
2009 • March • Ishmael Beah, wrote a (panel) for the Special Edition of the State of the World’s Children Report on the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
2008 • November • At the United Nations in New York, at the Universal Children’s Day Meeting on Children in Armed Conflict, Ishmael Beah and two other former child soldiers, Grace Akallo and Kon Kelei, launched the Network of Young People Affected by War (NYPAW). (Newsline)
2008 • June • At Pace University in New York, Mr. Beah was video-taped by CNN for a CNN and UNICEF global broadcast "The Survival Project: Saving One Child at a Time.” This feature was aired on CNN (USA) and CNN International on the eve of the G8 Summit. (CNN)
2008 • April • In Jamaica, on his first UNICEF mission, Mr. Beah visited communities where children’s lives are disrupted by crime and gang conflict. (Newsline)
2008 • January • In Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum (25-27 January) Mr. Beah spoke on 'Journeys of Change.' He was introduced by UNICEF Executive Director, Ms. Ann Veneman.
2007 • October • At the United Nations in New York, at the presentation of the 10-Year Strategic Review of The Machel Study, Mr. Beah addressed the assembly and participated in press conference with senior UN officials. (Newsline)
2007 • June • In Wismar, Germany, Mr. Beah participated in the Junior 8 Summit with a reading from this memoir. (Newsline)
2007 • February • In Paris, Mr. Beah spoke at the International Conference on Children in Armed Conflict. (Newsline)
2006 • February • At UNICEF headquarters in New York, Executive Director Ann M. Veneman and other dignitaries attended a reception for Mr. Beah to launch his book A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. (Newsline)
2006 • August • In Hiroshima and Kyoto, Japan, Mr. Beah was the keynote speaker and gave the “Call to Action” at the Religions for Peace Youth Assembly. (Newsline)
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| In the violence-prone Trenchtown community, in Kingston, Jamaica, Ishmael Beah plays play football with local youths. (April 2008) |
