Fight against climate change presents ‘fantastic opportunities’: UN Environment chief
A focus on the benefits of fighting climate change is one of the best ways to engage more people.
A focus on the benefits of fighting climate change is one of the best ways to engage more people.
The President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Monday it was important not to be distracted by threats from the United States, whose National Security Adviser earlier this month described the ICC as “illegitimate”, adding that US sanctions a
A new data-sharing online platform involving the UN and the pharmaceutical industry that launched on Wednesday could result in more medicines reaching those who need them, particularly in the developing world.
UN peacekeepers are facing increasing threats: fatalities are the highest in a generation, equipment is often inadequate, and political processes in many places are fragile or absent.
The troubled Horn of Africa country, Somalia, is still vulnerable but is making progress towards a more stable future, according to the UN’s most senior official in the country.
Countries are not doing enough to end tuberculosis – the world’s deadliest infectious disease – by 2030, warned the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, at the release of the latest Global Tuberculosis Report.
Sexual exploitation occurs very rarely, but it’s an “almost existential issue” for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), which is committed to tackling the scourge, the agency’s Deputy High Commissioner said on Tuesday.
Millions of children are still dying from preventable or treatable causes, despite huge progress in child mortality rates over the past 25 years.
Perhaps you know Olivia Wilde as Dr. Remy “Thirteen” Hadley on the American television series House, or as Ella Swensen, who worked to protect the world from aliens in the film Cowboys & Aliens.
There is a 22-year difference in life-expectancy between the people of Norway, and those of the impoverished nation of Niger in Africa, according to new data revealed on Friday in the UNDP Human Development Index (HDI).