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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.

The Tobacco Industry Is Aggressively Marketing New Products – Here Is How We Can Combat Their Actions and Save Lives

The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) can help protect our children from the negative health effects of tobacco and nicotine use. Photo credit: Secretariat of the WHO FCTC / Vlad Sokhin
Bright colours are deliberately used to disguise dangerous products as fun and harmless, but no matter the colour, tobacco is deadly.

Tobacco use kills millions of people each year, and the introduction of new nicotine products has created new threats, particularly for young people.

Intersectional Solidarity: We Are All the United Nations

When women have acted in solidarity to end human suffering, and when young people who have been denied their rights have raised their voices in protest against systemic forms of oppression, change seems to have been inevitable.

In a Warming World, Agriculture Must Be at the Heart of Climate and Clean Air Action

 A rice paddy field in Angkor, Cambodia, 17 August 2013. Diego Delso/delso.photo/CC BY-SA

Sustainable practices, more efficient systems and cleaner alternatives in agriculture can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, while also improving yields, lives and livelihoods.

Girls Must Drive the Next Chapter of Digital Change

Girls in ICT Day 2019 organized by ITU at the African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 25 April 2019 © ITU/M.Tewelde
Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union.
Girls in ICT Day in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 1, 2019 © ITU Pictures

As we mark International Girls in ICT Day, let’s make sure that every young woman and girl has the chance to be meaningfully connected with ample opportunities to become digital transformation leaders.

The Power of Voice to Inspire Change

A view of pamphlets during the event “International Day of Sport for Development and Peace 2023: Scoring for People and the Planet”. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten
Maher Nasser (centre) with participants in the South Asian Media and Cultural Studies Conference, held at Florida State University (FSU), Tallahassee, Florida, 30-31 January 2025. Credit: Sophia Ferraro/FSU

Stories and narratives matter, which is why they have been an important part of the communications strategy at the United Nations.