Former UNESCO Archives intern Meghan Shields inventories films at UNESCO headquarters. Photo: UNESCO (2018)

The work of safeguarding audiovisual archives of UNESCO and the United Nations is critical to the survival of the heritage of both organizations, and to the legacy of their continued pursuits.

In Kenya, a pastoralist herds his goats through the Chalbi Desert. Pastoralists walk for two hours from the village in North Horr to the El Bes Oasis for water. © FAO/Giulio Napolitano
Lifeng Li

Water Scarcity, the Climate Crisis and Global Food Security: A Call for Collaborative Action

Integrated natural resources management through the coordinated development and management of water, soils and land at all levels will maximize human well-being while safeguarding the integrity and sustainability of vital ecosystems.

The European Space Agency (ESA) Business Applications programme helps European industry partners use space to enhance their products and services in a wide range of domains. ESA photo
Aarti Holla-Maini

The United Nations in the Age of Space Entrepreneurship

The United Nations, through its Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), is enhancing its long-standing cooperation with Member States and driving partnerships with the broader space sector to support sustainable development.

A teacher and student in a classroom in Senegal. Samuel Grumaiu, Education International
David Edwards

Addressing the Teacher Shortage—a Global Imperative

The mission of the United Nations High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession is clear: ensure that every student benefits from a professionally trained, qualified and well-supported teacher.

Those who have contributed the least to the climate crisis are the among the most vulnerable. Two children walk in a nearly dry riverbed in Gombe, Nigeria, 18 January 2023. Macocobovi, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Simon Stiell

Ambitious and Accelerated Climate Action: A Blueprint for Course Correction

The Climate Ambition Summit convened by the Secretary-General is a critical moment to prepare for a COP that delivers strong and concrete outcomes. We need to do more, faster.

Through South-South cooperation, the India-UN Fund is supporting inclusive education in Nicaragua. 2023, UNOSSC
Dima Al-Khatib

South-South Cooperation Is Essential to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

It is our collective responsibility to build bridges and take urgent practical action to scale up South-South successes and lessons learned.

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We all have a role to play in “creating hope through action” to prevent suicide. Photo: Lina Trochez on Unsplash
Piumee Bandara

Creating Hope Through Action: Preventing Suicide in the Post-Pandemic Era

Much can be done to prevent suicide at the individual, community and national levels. In line with the triennial theme for World Suicide Prevention Day, we all have a role to play in “creating hope through action” to prevent suicide. 

Students in a temporary learning space designated for displaced children from 6 to 13 years of age in Kikumbe village in Tanganyika, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on 26 October 2022. © ECW/Justin Makangara
Yasmine Sherif

Unleashing Our Ability to Build a Better World: The Transformational Power of Education to Deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals

When a child attends school and benefits from a holistic, child-centred, quality education, he or she deploys a forceful power of resilience to learn, develop, achieve and build a better world.

A literacy class held in the backyard of the facilitator's home in Kabul, Afghanistan, 2007. Photo: Ulrike Hanemann
Ulrike Hanemann

Promoting Literacy for More Peaceful, Just and Sustainable Societies

In addition to being a key component of lifelong learning, literacy is, above all, a fundamental human right.

Pilgrims at a festival at Lalish in Dohuk Governorate, Kurdistan region of Iraq, on the day of the Yazidi New Year, 18 April 2017.  Levi Clancy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nazila Ghanea

Making Freedom of Religion or Belief a Lived Reality: Threats and Opportunities

Direct violence against marginalized religious or belief communities often goes hand in hand with, and is facilitated by, legally mandated discrimination at the national level and/or unchecked and widespread prejudicial and discriminatory attitudes.

Chronicle Conversations

Chronicle Conversation with United Nations Under-Secretary-General Amandeep Gill, 20 July 2023

Under-Secretary-General Amandeep Gill, the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology, discusses the state of artificial intelligence (AI), its potential use by the United Nations to address global problems, and the need for international AI governance. 

Youth Issues

The UN Chronicle interviews youth environmental activist Aditya Mukarji

Lyubov Ginzburg of the UN Chronicle interviews fifteen-year-old environmental activist Aditya Mukarji on the problem of plastic pollution and the first-ever United Nations Youth Climate Action Summit. 22 September 2019, New York

Legacy Showcase

Vol. LIII No. 1 2016

Humanitarian Action: A Shared Responsibility

This issue provides a variety of perspectives on improving the international humanitarian system, along with personal reflections on recovering from natural and human-induced disasters. It was planned as a way to support the objectives of the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit (Istanbul, Turkey, 23–24 May 2016).

Vol. LII No. 4 2015

Implementing the 2030 Agenda: The Challenge of Conflict

This issue looks at the link between conflict and the implementation and attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals. The articles examine, among other things, children and armed conflict, climate change, terrorism and food security.

Latest Reports

The State of the World’s Children 2023: For Every Child, Vaccination

The State of the World’s Children 2023: For Every Child, Vaccination

Vaccines save lives, but far too many children in the world are not being vaccinated. The COVID-19 pandemic only added to their numbers. The children who are missing out live in the poorest, most remote and most marginalized communities. 

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The UN Chronicle, produced by the United Nations Department of Global Communications, has served as the Organization’s flagship magazine since 1946, providing authoritative information and debate on the activities of the larger United Nations system. Learn more...

Construction of UN Permanent Headquarters in New York, 1 August 1950. UN Photo/ES