What does a crawfish farmer have in common with a taxidermist, or a voodoo priestess, or a long-haul heavy-load truck driver….?
The answer, according to the Director of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) office for the United States, is a quiet dignity and pride in their jobs.
The UN is committed to fighting corruption, a phenomenon that affects all countries in one way or another, through the work of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The United Nations Convention against Corruption is the only legally binding universal anti-corruption instrument, and a unique tool for developing a comprehensive response to a global problem: The vast majority of United Nations Member States are parties to the Convention.
One of the major challenges in eradicating the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the threat from numerous armed groups preventing health teams from reaching at-risk communities.
In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, Dr. Michel Yao from the World Health Organization explains how the agency is deploying helicopters to remote areas, as it adapts to the volatile situation.
A year has now passed since the Government of Yemen and Houthi rebels met in Sweden for UN-sponsored talks, aimed at ending a brutal conflict that has generated the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Supporting Mauritania’s efforts to protect its eastern border from jihadists and other destabilizing elements is just one aspect of the UN’s work in this “quiet” corner of North Africa.
That’s according to UN Resident Coordinator for Mauritania, Anthony Ohemeng-Boamah, who oversees the Organization’s operations to help the country realize sustainable development, economic growth and other goals.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres took questions from around the world alongside youth activist Marie Christina Kolo from Madagascar during the on-going COP25 climate conference on Thursday.
The Facebook Live event was hosted by Karin Orantes from our UN Social Media team.
Every day, 33,000 girls under the age of 18 are married, often against their will and one in three women will face sexual violence.
An American teenager is using his voice to raise awareness of how climate change is having an impact on his small indigenous village of Akiak, Alaska.
Carl Smith, 17, reports that warmer winters mean residents are finding it hard to carry out traditional subsistence activities such as hunting caribou, while heat spells make it difficult to collect cloudberries and salmonberries in summer.
The 2019 Human Development Report (HDR) – entitled Beyond income, beyond averages, beyond today: inequalities in human development in the 21st Century - was launched on Monday, in Bogota, Colombia.
This year’s report shows that a new generation of severe inequalities in human development is emerging, even as the gap is narrowing, on many of the unresolved inequalities of the 20th century.
Measles deaths and infections are spiking again globally, and Governments everywhere should do more to convince parents that it is safe to vaccinate their children.
That’s the message from the World Health Organization’s Dr Kate O’Brien, Director of Immunization and Vaccines.
In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, she describes the impact of a major outbreak of measles on the Pacific island nation of Samoa, where thousands of children have contracted the disease.
