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Ever since former US First Lady and human rights champion Eleanor Roosevelt inspired the first UN sub-commission on the status of women in the 1940s, thousands of women around the world meet at UN Headquarters in New York every March to take the pulse of the planet and make their voices heard.
Third United Nations Ocean Conference set to accelerate urgent action [...]
Governments agree on the way forward to mobilise the resources [...]
PRESS RELEASE The Cali Fund launches in the margins of [...]
UN calls for innovative solutions to strengthen social inclusion and [...]
WMO confirms 2024 as warmest year on record at about [...]
Global growth to remain subdued amid lingering uncertainty, warns UN [...]
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Riyadh concluded following five days of multistakeholder and high-level discussions.The Forum brought together experts, the private sector, technical community and civil society, in its largest-ever gathering with more than 11,000 participants, to address the transformative opportunities and risks posed by rapid advancements of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies.
17 December 2024 - Every year, millions of people leave their countries [...]
Amidst a series of global challenges, the 19th United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) opened today in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia under the theme, "Building Our Multistakeholder Digital Future" with a call for collective action and collaboration among governments, private sector, and civil society.
After two weeks of intense negotiations on how to tackle land degradation, desertification and drought, the largest and most inclusive United Nations land conference wrapped up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Three-Quarters of Earth’s Land Became Permanently Drier in Last Three [...]
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) today unveiled its first-ever #Sport4Land Champions at COP16, the largest United Nations land conference in the Middle East region to date.
Negotiations on a global drought regime are set to dominate the 16thConference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP16) as 197 Parties gather to address one of the world’s deadliest and costliest disasters. The conference opened on Monday, 2 December with major political and financial commitments to strengthen drought resilience worldwide.
Countries negotiating a legally binding instrument on plastic pollution concluded [...]
Talks began in Busan, South Korea, on Monday aiming to [...]
Rich nations pledged to contribute at least $300 billion annually [...]
The high-level diplomatic push for climate action shifted southward on Tuesday as G20 leaders meeting in Rio sent a clear signal to negotiating teams at stalled UN climate talks in Baku on the need to rapidly and substantially ‘scale up climate finance from billions to trillions from all sources.’
