The ActNow campaign aims to trigger individual action on the defining issue of our time. People around the world have joined to make a difference in all facets of their lives, from the food they eat to the clothes they wear.
Journalism under digital siege
This year’s World Press Freedom Day spotlights how journalism is endangered by surveillance and digitally mediated attacks on journalists. Surveillance can expose information gathered by journalists and whistle-blowers and violates the principle of source protection. Surveillance may also harm the safety of journalists by disclosing sensitive private information, which could be used for harassment or attack. A global conference, taking place on 2-5 May, discusses how surveillance impacts journalism, freedom of expression, privacy, and the public trust in digital communications.
Mariupol steel works convoy: UN aids arrivals after journey 'from hell'
3 May 2022 — In Ukraine on Tuesday, UN humanitarians began to help the first evacuees arriving from Mariupol’s devastated Azovstal steel works, more than two months since Russia’s invasion began,...
In Niger, Guterres calls for more resources to fight terror attacks in Africa’s Sahel
2 May 2022 — The number of terrorist attacks in the Sahel region of Africa “continues to increase” according to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who arrived in the capital of Niger,...
Threats to media workers’ freedom ‘growing by the day’, UN chief warns
3 May 2022 — Journalists and media workers are facing “increasing politicization” of their work and threats to their freedom to simply do their jobs, that are “growing by the day”, said the UN...





