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UN chief and UK premier announce December climate summit
With the COVID-19 pandemic having disrupted plans to hold the [...]
Conflict, climate crisis, threaten fragile gains to advance women and children’s health
Fragile gains made over the past decade to advance women [...]
LIVE: UN Climate Change Roundtable – a ‘just transition’ through climate action is key says Guterres
Live coverage of the High-Level UN Climate Change Roundtable, featuring [...]
UN and partners press for seafarers to be designated ‘key workers’ during COVID pandemic
The UN Secretary-General has again appealed for governments to act on behalf of hundreds of thousands of seafarers and other maritime workers stuck at sea for endless months, in some cases more than a year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
With climate crisis top public concern, UN’s ActNow campaign steps up public engagement for more sustainable lifestyles
The UN’s ActNow campaign now offers a gamified mobile app experience for individuals to learn, engage and take action for a more sustainable future.
Global solution to COVID-19 in sight, ‘we sink or we swim together’ – WHO chief
COVID-19 is an “unprecedented global crisis that demands an unprecedented [...]
One million people share hopes and fears for future with the UN
The results are in from a massive, unprecedented crowd-sourcing survey of international opinion, launched in January 2020 to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. Participants from all walks of life, women, men, girls and boys in developed and developing countries were encouraged to share their hopes and fears for the future and how the UN can help to bring about change.
United Nations releases special 2020 broadcast calling for collective action
NEW YORK, 18 September 2020—The United Nations, Project Everyone and 72 Films are launching “Nations United - Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times,” a first of its kind film released tomorrow on the UN YouTube channel and global broadcast networks.
Sustainable Development goals are ‘the future’ Malala tells major UN event, urging countries to get on track
The Global Goals represent the future for millions of girls who want education, women who fight for equality, and youth fighting for clean air, UN Messenger of Peace Malala Yousafzai said on Friday, at a side event of the General Assembly, challenging Member States, “when are you planning to do the work”?
COVID pushes millions more children deeper into poverty, finds new study
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed an additional 150 million children [...]
UN chief: COVID-19 vaccine must be affordable and available to all
The continuing COVID-19 pandemic continues to top a long list of global concerns, the UN chief told journalists [...]
Ozone treaties ‘inspiring examples’ of political will, UN chief says on International Day
The United Nations commemorated the International Day for the Preservation [...]
A youthful 75: next generation to carry the torch for UN values
75 years on from the founding of the UN, young [...]
Leaders pledge ‘quantum leap’ towards fully funding COVID-19 vaccines and treatments
Global leaders, including more than 30 Heads of State [...]
Science, solidarity and solutions needed against climate change: Guterres
Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere are at [...]
Children’s lives at stake, COVID threatens to undo 30 years of ‘remarkable progress’
COVID-19 threatens to undo decades of hard-fought progress in reducing [...]
Quiet corridors but a full programme at virtual UNGA75: five things you need to know
The 75th UN General Assembly (UNGA) session, begins on 15 September and this year, due to the ongoing global pandemic, it will be unlike any other in the organization’s three quarters of a century of existence.
‘No hope’ of reaching climate, development goals, without youth optimism and know-how
Without harnessing the energy, tech savvy and optimism of young people, the world has no hope of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or the Paris Agreement on climate change, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday.
Kickstarting economies without COVID-19 plan, ‘a recipe for disaster’: Tedros
Eight months into the COVID-19 pandemic, countries want to “get their economies [...]
COVID-19: UN urges ramping up social protection programmes to safeguard those most vulnerable
The socio-economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted UN agencies [...]