Year after year, the humanitarian community has risen to the challenge. Humanitarian operations have expanded, and more and more humanitarians have rallied to the cause. 

Under-Secretary-General Amandeep Gill, the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology, discusses the state of artificial intelligence (AI), its potential use by the United Nations to address global problems, and the need for international AI governance. 

Women continue to face the challenge of balancing breastfeeding and work.

New and emerging issues continue to cause vulnerability to trafficking, to facilitate it, or to complicate responses to this problem.

It is one thing to utilize AI to draft memos or automate workflow in a company, but the work of United Nations professionals involves engaging in policy and operational decision-making that has tangible human consequences on the societal and everyday levels at a global scale.

Ultimately, planetary health and the sustainability of our economic system will depend on the social, demographic, economic and environmental choices that we make. 

Micro-, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are engines of economic growth and employment, accounting for 90 per cent of businesses, up to 70 per cent of all jobs and 50 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) at the global level.  

At the United Nations, we, the women working in diplomacy, along with our feminist male allies, have an opportunity to drive forward the change we need. 

Obstetric fistula can be prevented when there is access to quality, comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services and information. 

Though we humans share the earth with the rest of its life forms, and we are an integrated part of its biodiversity, we have an outsized impact on the health of the planet.