The Special Event entitled Keeping the SDG Promise: Pathways for Acceleration is taking place on the sidelines of the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) now underway, aimed at…
Read more Sustainable development: ‘Be leaders and inspire’ UN deputy chief urges, as 2030 deadline nearsRight now, the UN observes 218 international days (and counting)! The tradition started long before the UN’s inception in 1945, but it didn’t take long for the Organization…
Read more Counting down the days: UN’s 218 international days explainedDisplayed for all visitors to see, the tiny charcoal coloured block of Moon rock spent three decades in storage and made its re-appearance after a rigorous security process.…
Read more How a piece of the Moon landed at UN HeadquartersIn conflict zones across the world, UN humanitarian workers work under extreme conditions, but it is hard to exaggerate the risks they are facing in Gaza, where hospitals,…
Read more How is the UN helping civilians in Gaza?In actions taken late evening on Friday, the 193-member General Assembly also adopted nearly $50 million in additional funding for decisions taken by the Human Rights Council, UN’s…
Read more General Assembly approves $3.59 billion UN budget for 2024The peacekeeping mission which for many years has been the deadliest place to serve as a UN ‘blue helmet’, is due to draw down fully by 31 December,…
Read more UN voices concern over obstacles to Mali mission’s orderly withdrawalAgreed at the fifth International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5), in Bonn, Germany, the Global Framework on Chemicals sets concrete targets and guidelines across the lifecycle of chemicals.…
Read more New UN framework to protect environment from harmful chemicalsSergey Lavrov said power was slipping through the hands of the old order, dominated by Washington, which has long rejected the principle of equality. Americans and Europeans “make…
Read more Russian Foreign Minister hits out at West’s ‘empire of lies’Describing the national vision for 2030, Faisal bin Farhan Al Furhan Al-Saud said it centred on promoting development for future generations and empowering women and young people by…
Read more Saudi Foreign Minister outlines plans for better, greener Middle EastLeaders from Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea painted a grim picture of a planet marred by the unforgiving impacts of climate change. They left no room for equivocation:…
Read more At UN, Horn of Africa nations urge global solidarity and real reformAddressing the Assembly’s annual general debate, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, said, “the world cannot afford Cold War 2.0,” because there are a raft of challenges facing humankind that can only…
Read more ‘The world cannot afford Cold War 2.0,’ Pakistan leader tells UN AssemblySince the start of the war, Ukrainian ports in the Black and Azov seas were blocked by Russia and its ports on the Danube River targeted by drones…
Read more Russia’s weaponization of food and energy impacts all countries, Zelenskyy tells UN AssemblyWith world leaders set to convene next week for the annual high-level opening of the General Assembly, the UN’s Midtown East campus on the weekend was host to…
Read more ‘We all need to step up’ to rescue the SDG’s and fight for a better future: UN chief“This is not a Vanity Fair. This is a political body in which governments are represented,” he told UN News in an exclusive interview. “What matters is that…
Read more UNGA78: UN chief brushes off absence of key leaders, says nations must deliver on climate and development promisesStreets around UN HQ in Midtown Manhattan will be cordoned off, roadblocks erected, and security heightened and tightened, as world leaders gather to take the pulse of the…
Read more Taking the pulse of the planet as the world gathers at the UNThe then New York-based Elpida Rouka had accompanied the Executive Director of the Office of the Iraq Programme on a mission to Baghdad and survived the deadly explosion…
Read more First Person: Iraqis ‘not abandoned’ after 2003 attack on UN BaghdadThe men – four national staff and a Bangladeshi citizen – were abducted in the southern governorate of Abyan on 11 February 2022 after returning from a field…
Read more UN welcomes release of five staff abducted last year in YemenA young mother sits on a low wooden stool above burning embers from a piece of bark placed in a small earthenware pot. A bright purple and white…
Read more International Youth Day: Battling the stigmatization of teen pregnancy in ThailandSocial media’s role in crushing hate speech From COVID-19 to climate change, hateful exchanges among those with opposing views is a growing concern, said Latifa Akharbach, president of…
Read more Countering ‘dark age of intolerance’ starts by tackling hate speechWFP’s Country Director in Sudan, Eddie Rowe, told reporters in Geneva that in a major breakthrough, the agency distributed food assistance to 15,000 people in both Sudanese Armed…
Read more UN humanitarians complete first food distribution in Khartoum as hunger, threats to children, intensify
