Interviews

A focus on the benefits of fighting climate change is one of the best ways to engage more people.

This is the message that Erik Solheim, head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), has been spreading at UN Headquarters in New York during High-Level week at the General Assembly.

Conor Lennon spoke to Mr. Solheim in the UN’s VIP Social Media Studio and asked what needs to be done to make climate change, one of the biggest challenges facing humanity, a day-to-day political priority.

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 against judges and prosecutors may be forthcoming.

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. 

Within this context, the Secretary-General launched the Action for Peacekeeping Initiative (A4P) earlier this year.

It is designed to renew political support for UN peacekeeping, and to make operations more effective, safer and better designed to advance political settlements.

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.

The report shows that worldwide, tuberculosis (TB) cases are falling too slowly to meet the targets set by WHO’s End TB Strategy.

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.

Announcing measures that are designed to encourage victims to come forward, including a global telephone hotline, Kelly T. Clements said that the number of reported cases of abuse has doubled among its more than 1,000 international partners in the last year.

Millions of children are still dying from preventable or treatable causes, despite huge progress in child mortality rates over the past 25 years.

These are some of the key findings of a new report compiled by UN Agencies, which shows that 1 child is dying every 5 seconds.

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).

With eight days on the job, Shireen Dodson, the new UN Ombudsman, did not set out to become a career mediator, but began to master the basics as a young child, when she diplomatically negotiated between her divorced parents.

In an interview with UN News, she explained how she would delicately negotiate separate times to sit down at her mother’s, and — later in the day — her stepmother’s table, on the key US family holiday of Thanksgiving.