SDGs

Employed youth, between the ages of 15 and 24, face a greater risk than older workers of losing their jobs because of automation.
World Bank/Li Wenyong

Rising number of young people excluded from jobs, education and training

9 March 2020
Global

The number of young people around the world who are neither employed, studying or in some kind of training, is on the rise, according to a new report released on Monday by the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Women in a self-help group meeting in Bhatajhari Village, India.
© UNICEF/Ashima Narain

International Women’s Day: Gender equality benefits everyone

7 March 2020
Global

The benefits of gender equality are not just for women and girls, but “for everyone whose lives will be changed by a fairer world”, the chief of UN Women said in her message for International Women’s Day (IWD) at UN Headquarters on Friday, being celebrated in New York, ahead of the official day.

Sun rises in Chapala Lake, Mexico.
WMO/Victor Hugo

World Wildlife Day: UN chief urges ‘more caring’ relationship with nature

3 March 2020
Global

People everywhere need to remember that we depend on Mother Earth to survive, the UN chief said in his message for World Wildlife Day marked on Tuesday, advocating for “a more caring, thoughtful and sustainable relationship with nature”.