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The Lasting Promise of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention

The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) has established a global norm rejecting anti-personnel mines as indiscriminate weapons with no place in modern warfare.

Access to Information: A Cornerstone of Sustainable Development, Human Rights and Environmental Resilience

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Tawfik Jelassi

Access to information is the bridge that allows citizens to demand justice, journalists to expose corruption, and communities to secure basic services.

The International Day Against Nuclear Tests 2025: Remembering the Legacy, Renewing Our Commitment to a Nuclear-Test Ban

Radionuclide station RN49, Spitzbergen, Norway
CTBTO Executive Secretary Robert Floyd addressing staff, Vienna International Centre, Vienna, Austria, 2023

By prohibiting nuclear test explosions, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty transformed decades of aspiration into a shared commitment.

Lakes: Hidden Giants in the Global Hydrological Cycle

Fishing boat at sunrise on Lake Malawi in Africa. Adobe Stock/beautyness
Inger Andersen, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). UNEP/Natasha Sweeney

Protecting freshwater ecosystems like lakes is central to biodiversity, water, energy and food security, and offers climate resilience.

Future Forward: Universalizing Climate Action to Bend the Curve of Climate Change for Global Sustainability

Students participating in a "sustainability accelerator" exercise though the 1 Million for 1 Billion (1M1B) Foundation. Photo credit: 1M1B
Launch of the 1.5 Matters initiative. Maher Nasser, Director of the Outreach Division of the United Nations Department of Global Communications, stands third from right. Photo credit: 1M1B
Graphic showing the key thematic areas of green internships with measurable outcomes. Credit: 1M1B
Launch of 1M1B Green Skills Academy Job Readiness Centre. Photo credit: 1M1B

When sustainability is incorporated into the learning journey, it cultivates leadership, empathy and innovation – essential traits for climate-resilient citizenship.

World Hepatitis Day and Every Day: Advancing Global Solidarity to Eliminate Hepatitis

The Budi Lukmanto Foundation, a grassroots, nonprofit organization, conducting hepatitis B screening for children at Vincentius Putra Orphanage in Jakarta, Indonesia. Photo Credit: Edhie Purwanto
At the Bathurst Correctional Centre in New South Wales, Australia, a nurse conducts point-of-care hepatitis C testing, bringing vital healthcare to an often-overlooked population. Photo Credit: Conor Ashleigh
At R. G. Kar Hospital in Kolkata, India, a nurse administers a hepatitis B vaccine as part of a state-led program offering free hepatitis services. Photo credit: Soumyadeep Kundu

This World Hepatitis Day, let us celebrate our successes in fighting the disease and reaffirm our global commitment to ending hepatitis as a public health threat. 

Collaboration Is Key to Combating Sand and Dust Storms

Giza Pyramids. ELG21/Enrique@Pixabay
Celeste Saulo, Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization.
Dust storm clouds rolling into Phoenix, Arizona, United States, on 5 July 2011, reducing visibility to zero. A mile-high wall of dust and sand was created by desert thunderstorms. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons

Dust and sand storms can have far-reaching impacts on our health and quality of life, on air and ground transport, on agriculture and the environment, and on solar energy production.

A Chronicle Conversation with Klaus Richter

Hands-on quantum physics was also on offer at the workshops organised to mark World Quantum Day at the Urania in Berlin. © Franceschetti
Klaus Richter – President of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft) © DPG/Marschalsky
Hands-on quantum physics was also on offer at the workshops organised to mark World Quantum Day at the Urania in Berlin. © Franceschetti
2025 is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ).
How to bring quantum physics into schools was the topic at the IYQ exhibition stand at the MNU annual congress. © DPG / Cartarius

Quantum mechanics has impressively completed our view of the world and made the atomistic cosmos accessible to us. 

Reflections on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Entry into Force of the World Wildlife Treaty

A black-bellied pangolin (Manis tetradactyla), listed in CITES Appendix I. Angiolo/Adobe Stock
CITES Secretary-General Higuero (second from right) addresses the CITES Plants Committee at its twenty-sixth meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, 2023. Photo: CITES Secretariat
Cape aloe (Aloe ferox), a plant listed in CITES Appendix II. Photo: Lynette/Adobe Stock
CITES Secretary-General Higuero (centre-left, holding sign) attends the launch of the CITES Global Youth Network in Singapore, 2024. Photo: Shenn Tan

Over the past decades, CITES has developed and harnessed a suite of tools that help us navigate an increasingly complex landscape, not just to keep pace but to lead. 

The Story of the Charter

Pedro Leao Velloso, Minister of State for Foreign Relations, Chairman of the Delegation from Brazil, signing the Charter of the United Nations at the Veterans' War Memorial Building, San Francisco, United Sates, 26 June 1945. UN Photo/McLain

Behind the signing of the Charter of the United Nations is the story of mankind's age-old attempts to take common action so that peace and security may be achieved.