WHO launches a campaign to raise awareness of the scale of suicide around the world and the role that each of us can play to help prevent it (key facts; summary info-graphic; in-depth resource booklets).

This page outlines the various WIPO services that create the conditions for innovation, competitiveness and creativity to thrive, and it highlights examples of communities benefiting from these services.

When we drink a glass of water, write in a notebook, take medicine for a fever or build a house, we do not always make the connection with forests. And yet, these and many other aspects of our lives are linked to forests in one way or another. Forests, their sustainable management and use of resources, including in fragile ecosystems, are key to combating climate change, and to contributing to the prosperity and well-being of current and future generations. Forests also play a crucial role in poverty alleviation and in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).