According to the World Social Report 2024, launched today by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, urgent global action is needed to support national efforts to address the ...

UN DESA to host series of public events on 17 October, focusing on solutions to end poverty ...

The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2024 highlights a widespread but often ignored aspect of poverty: social and institutional mistreatment. This hidden violence, which includes ...

Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak, is UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP28 and is the President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Bogolo Kenewendo is Special Adviser for the UN ...

The world is facing multiple crises, from the lingering effects of COVID-19 to rising conflicts, natural disasters and the accelerating impacts of climate change. These challenges have been ...

Achieving gender equality and empowering women is not only the right thing to do but is a critical ingredient in the fight against extreme poverty, hunger and malnutrition. Women account for a ...

The day aims to highlight and address the needs and challenges girls face, while promoting girls' empowerment and the fulfillment of their human rights. The world’s 1.1 billion girls are a ...

The UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library has completed a notable project that enriches the data available on the historic gender ratio of UN Security Council representatives. This initiative enables ...

Dimuthu Attanayake is an award-winning independent journalist and the first Pulitzer Center grantee from Sri Lanka. Her reporting covers social justice, environmental issues, climate change ...

Hashem Osseiran is a Lebanese journalist with a decade of experience covering conflicts and humanitarian crises in the Arab world. As a Beirut-based correspondent for Agence France-Presse, he ...