The flagship forecast launched in New York on Thursday indicates that last year’s stronger-than-expected GDP growth coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic masked short-term risks and structural vulnerabilities in the world economy.
The sombre short-term outlook is based on persistently high...
Launched in 2015, the Agenda set out a 15-year plan to realize 17 interconnected targets, known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and change that trajectory.
In the second of a two-part series, UN News looks at how far the world has come since 2015 in tackling climate change...
Launched in 2015, the initiative set out a 15-year plan to realize 17 interconnected targets, known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Since then, the ambitious goals have shaped national action plans, from building resilient cities and reducing inequalities to taking climate action...
One of 38 people members of the new UN advisory body on machine learning, Mr. Ndiaye spoke with UN News about the landscape ahead, building on his experience in helping to drive Senegal’s digital transformation in higher education, serving as an expert to the African Union in drafting the...
Pramila Patten, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, called for the immediate, safe, and unconditional release of all those who remain in captivity.
Ms. Patten met this week with the mother of one of the young women taken hostage who expressed the pain...
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Refugees in an inflatable boat approach the shores of the island of Lesbos, in northern Greece.
20 December 2023Migrants and Refugees
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees on Wednesday welcomed a key deal by members of the European Union (EU) to...
In a message marking International Migrants Day, the UN chief emphasized that migration promotes the exchange of knowledge and contributes to economic growth, but at the same time, “poorly governed migration is a cause of great suffering.”
“It forces people into the cruel realm of traffickers...
Speaking at the closing of the Global Refugee Forum, the Secretary-General said that protection and help for these most vulnerable of people, was “an obligation shared by all of humanity”.
He was speaking after three days of intensive activity geared to finding solutions and building...
Goal 8
World News in Brief: End e-cigarette boom urges WHO, measles surge in Europe, Central Asia; crisis for kids in Lebanon
WHO said that 88 countries have no minimum age at which e-cigarettes can be bought and 74 countries have not implemented any e-cigarette regulations.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on countries to ramp up prevention measures, saying that “kids are being recruited and trapped at an...
The world’s largest gathering dedicated to refugee issues, the Forum is co-hosted by UNHCR and Switzerland and convened by Colombia, France, Japan, Jordan and Uganda.
It brings together Member States, civil society, financial institutions, private companies and more than 300 refugee advocates...
“This is a pivotal day. We are here to rebuild a foundation of hope – hope that we need now, perhaps more than ever, at this sombre moment in history,” Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said, addressing participants which included leaders from Poland, Slovenia, Estonia, Greece...
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Civil society organizations demand reparations for the loss and damage caused by climate change.
11 December 2023Climate and Environment
The latest COP28 draft outcome text released to negotiators in Dubai Monday evening dropped a call to...
This year, the anti-corruption conference, as the Conference of the States Parties (CoSP) is popularly known, marks the 20th anniversary of the landmark Convention.
“Corruption not only robs resources, it robs people of hope,” Mr. Guterres said in a video message, urging all Parties to use this...
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A migrant from Venezuela talks to his family after crossing the Darien Gap into Central America.
7 December 2023Migrants and Refugees
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), on Thursday, called for...
Goal 10
World News in Brief: Nigeria airstrikes condemned, support for Venezuelan migrants and refugees, weapons in Myanmar
6 December 2023Human Rights
Authorities in Nigeria must investigate a string of deadly airstrikes over the past six years and hold those responsible to account, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Wednesday.
OHCHR issued a statement deploring the latest strike – the fourth since...
6 December 2023Culture and Education
The UNESCO committee that protects so called Intangible Cultural Heritage met in Botswana this week to add new entries to the UN culture agency’s list of world treasures, some of which must be “urgently” safeguarded.
Convened in the town of Kasane, the...
The new findings from the UNICEF research wing focus on Member States of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the European Union (EU).
Analysing child support policies among the group of developed economies, the report finds that despite an overall decrease in...
Abdullahi Mire grew up in the sprawling Dadaab refugee complex in northeastern Kenya with its population today of more than 240,000 registered refugees, mostly from Somalia.
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) coordinates operations there together with partners, relying also on the support of the...
Goal 10
World News in Brief: Aid cut threat for Afghan deportees, saving Rohingya lives at sea, China respiratory illness spike, new rail transport treaty
Pakistan announced in October that it would begin deporting “undocumented” foreign nationals starting on 1 November, affecting thousands of Afghans who have found refuge in the country.
WFP said most families crossing the border are arriving hungry, desperate and in need of immediate support...
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Refugees from Sudan wait to collect aid items in a border village in Chad (file).
21 November 2023Humanitarian Aid
Funding constraints and rising humanitarian needs could force the World Food Programme (WFP) to halt assistance to more than a...