New agreement aims to streamline global trade
A new global agreement that makes trade cheaper, easier and faster has been welcomed by the UN trade body, UNCTAD.
A new global agreement that makes trade cheaper, easier and faster has been welcomed by the UN trade body, UNCTAD.
More than 460,000 children in Yemen are “at high risk of death” due to severe and acute malnutrition, according to a senior official with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Increased pressures on natural resources, rising inequality and the effects of climate change are placing global food security “in jeopardy,” the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warns.
Road accidents are a global pandemic that more countries around the world could help to eradicate through the power of cinema.
A Syrian refugee who recently moved to the USA with the help of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) wants to give back to his host community and improve people’s perception of his culture and religion.
Resolving existing conflicts in Europe and preventing tensions from escalating into new crises is essential to stability and cooperation on the continent and beyond, the UN Secretary-General said on Tuesday.
Languages provide “strong emotional links,” so repressing the use of mother languages is “playing with fire”.
That’s according to Fernando Lopez Murcia, coordinator of the Spanish Language programme at the United Nations Headquarters.
Gender inequality - including “harmful social norms” - makes women and girls in the Pacific region more vulnerable to the impacts of disasters.
Creating decent employment opportunities in rural areas is “crucial” to preventing people there from leaving because they feel they have no other job options, a phenomenon known as distress migration.
With famine now declared in parts of South Sudan, it is “absolutely fundamental” that aid workers can reach people in need, a top official with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has stated.