Established in 1945, the General Assembly of the United Nations occupies a central position as the main deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the Organization. It provides a unique forum for multilateral discussion of the full spectrum of international issues covered by the Charter. In line with this year’s General Assembly session, with its General Debate beginning on 21 September 2021, UNAI has produced a series of video interviews with young staff working for the Permanent Missions to the United Nations and for the Organization.  

Ensure access to water and sanitation for all is a specific call for action as per the Sustainable Development Goal 6.

The United Nations Academic Impact and the Millennium Campus Network (MCN) are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship, a semester-long leadership development program that helps students design and implement community-level initiatives to promote sustainability and help others in need.

The COVID-19 pandemic and associated societal restrictions such as lockdowns and movement limitations, have impacted many areas in society as well as aspects of individual’s work and private life. People have been affected in disparate ways, due to occupation, socioeconomic situation and other variables. For example, depending on the requirements for physical presence at work, and real-life interpersonal contact, contra possibilities to telework, people have experienced different types of changes in their day-to-day lives.

The forested coastlines of Afognak Island, part of the Kodiak Archipelago in Alaska, seem at first glance to be pristine and unspoiled. The miles of deserted beaches being left mostly in the care of the island’s brown bears and Roosevelt elk. Unfortunately, that perception is far from accurate, due to the island’s location along the North Pacific Gyre – an enormous ocean current swirling counterclockwise across the Pacific Ocean north of the Equator which deposits hundreds of thousands of kilos of the world’s ocean plastics on its beaches each year.

The question of how science, research, and study address challenges, pinpoint innovative solutions and reach people in need, is an issue of concern for academic institutions.

The United Nations Academic Impact and the Millennium Campus Network (MCN) are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship, a semester-long leadership development program that helps students design and implement community-level initiatives to promote sustainability and help others in need.

The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the greatest and most serious issues of our times, requiring several approaches to deal with it successfully and effectively. Consequently, it is very important to understand the biological mechanisms of virus propagation, as well as the governing diffusion dynamics. These dynamics can be studied using the notion of universality, according to which different systems or classes of systems can demonstrate the same dynamic behavior and dynamical features, regardless of underlying mechanisms and dynamic details.

The marine fisheries sector constitutes a critical element for the economy of Bangladesh, a country where more than 17 million people work in this sector, comprising about 11% of the population. Fish plays a crucial role in the average food consumption and is an important source of protein.