The UNICEF Ambassador and former Olympian, who played in five World Cups, is committed to doing her bit to save the planet, as she told UN News’s Yasmina Guerda at the COP24 climate change conference in Poland, on Tuesday, where the UN launched the Sports for Climate Action Framework, to involve more athletes in the fight. 

The adoption of the UN global migration pact in Marrakech means that the world will see migration through “a completely different narrative”, and countries that have chosen not to sign up will eventually “change their minds.” That’s the hope expressed by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Tuesday, Former President of Liberia, who took part in the conference in Morocco. 

What does climate change look like to those living on the front line of extreme weather regions across the world, and what can be done right now to help them?

If countries help educate incoming migrants and refugees, they will no longer be viewed as a problem, but a valuable resource, said a 20-year-old from Côte d’Ivoire, speaking on behalf of young people, ahead of the adoption of the new UN Global Compact for Migration in Marrakech, Morocco.  Kader Diabate made the voyage alone to Italy on one of the world’s most dangerous routes – through Niger and Libya, and across the Mediterranean Sea.  He spoke to UN News’s Mustafa Al Gamal about his extraordinary journey.

Phasing out pollution and changing inefficient industries which damage the environment for greener systems and solutions, represents the biggest financial opportunity “of the century”. That’s according to innovator Bertrand Piccard, who spoke with Yasmina Guerda at the key  COP24 climate change conference, in Katowice, Poland.

Imagine how you would go about overcoming an outbreak of deadly disease it in a place where there’s frequent fighting that prevents you from reaching some of the sick and dying. Tarik Jasarevic of WHO, told UN News’s Daniel Johnson, he was “still confident” the latest Democratic Republic of the Congo oubreak can be contained. 

The mass arrest of demonstrators in Indonesia who were attempting to mark a national day for indigenous people in the east of the archipelago, has been condemned by the UN human rights office, OHCHR. Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani explained to UN News on Friday, what’s behind these latest developments.

Road traffic crashes have become the leading killer of young people, with most deaths happening in lower-income countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports. The agency's Director for the department that handles violence and injury prevention, Dr. Etienne Krug, spoke with UN News's Natalie Hutchison.

Women have left an indelible mark on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but when they first started working on it, men were “thinking that the declaration wasn’t going to be much of anything." That's according to Stockholm University researcher, Rebecca Adami, whose book "Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights" was launched this week at the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library in New York.  Ms. Adami spoke with UN News's Paulina Greer.

There is “no question,” of the positive benefits that could be reaped from migration, if the world implements the UN Global Compact, an all-inclusive agreement to make migration safe and orderly. That's the view of UN Special Representative for International migration, Louise Arbour, who spoke with Mustafa al-Gamal of UN News ahead of next week's Compact conference in Morocco.