Four in five adolescents fail to meet minimum exercise level
It’s widely understood that exercise is good for you, but how much should that be?
It’s widely understood that exercise is good for you, but how much should that be?
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are facing a “toxic combination” of escalating violence, displacement, hunger, poverty and climate change, which has driven the whole central Sahel region to the “cusp of disaster”.
For this latest edition of our hit UN News podcast UNcomplicated, hosts Sinduja Srinivasan and Jason DeWall talk to independent UN expert on the right to privacy. Joe Cannataci, one of the world authorities on data protection and internet regulation.
Around 15 countries are preparing to test a technique that sterilizes male mosquitoes using radiation as part of a global health effort to control diseases such as chikungunya, dengue, and Zika.
Polarization and divisive language could be a major impediment to reaching the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the world needs to prioritize youth education to reach targets by 2030.
Cases of Ebola virus are slowing down in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but it is still way too soon to say the deadly disease is beaten.
Not only does torture not work, it’s counterproductive, and when the practice elicits false confessions, societies pay a “very high price.”
Somalia could provide valuable “lessons learned for other mission set ups”, according to the UN police commissioner there.
Although East Africa has been experiencing impressive economic growth for nearly a decade, it has not enabled the creation of enough decent jobs for the region’s rapidly growing population.
Although almost nine in 10 people in developed countries use the internet, in poorer regions, only a fraction of that number goes online.