“Bee Engaged with Youth” to Safeguard Bees and Other Pollinators
As we celebrate World Bee Day on 20 May, let us remember how crucial it is to prioritize efforts to protect bees and other pollinators. FAO is committed to supporting youth, who have a key role to play in fostering the transformative changes and future initiatives and activities needed to save our bees and other pollinators.
2024 ECOSOC Youth Forum draws record participation
6 May 2024 - In mid-April, the UN halls were host to a space where there was a clear convergence of aspirations and concerns between young people and Member States, each contributing their own expertise to advancing the 2030 Agenda.
Start from Zero: Returned Migrants in The Gambia
Every year, hundreds of thousands of migrants try to reach Europe, crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Thousands of them die or go missing.
The DARWIN200 Global Voyage
A decade in the making, the DARWIN200 project centres on inspiring a new wave of exceptional environmental leaders by training and empowering some of the world’s top young (from 18 to 25 years of age) conservationists.
Media is Hope: Japanese youth, media and the UN team up for climate action
Founded in 2022 and led by a group of engaged young Japanese in their 20s and 30s, Media is Hope has already grown to more than 50 members from civil society with a mission to promote social change for larger climate action by disseminating accurate climate information, monitoring media coverage on climate change, and building bridges with media and sponsoring organizations.
World leaders must listen to young people on education
Recovering from COVID-19, youth step up efforts for the global goals
Youth leaders, activists and youth-led organizations around the world will gather virtually with government ministers and officials at the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)...
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United Nations Academic Impact Celebrates its 10th Anniversary
On 18 November 2010, United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) was created by the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon and the late J. Michael Adams, then President of Fairleigh Dickinson University. The initiative aims to align universities worldwide more closely with the United Nations and tap into their research, innovation and scholarship to further the goals of the UN as well as to help educate future generations of global citizens.