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Jorge Chediek, Envoy of the Secretary General on South-South Cooperation, and the President of Uruguay, Tabaré Vásquez (centre), launching the report on 'South-South Cooperation in the Digital World.'
Laura Quinones/UN News

UN launches ‘South-South Galaxy’ knowledge-sharing platform in Buenos Aires

19 March 2019

When countries of the Global South forged an historic technical cooperation deal among themselves 40 years ago, digital technology was a thing of the future, but developing nations have come a long way since then.

GoGirls ICT is a Juba, South Sudan based non-profit initiative founded by a group of dedicated young women in the fields of computer science, hacktivism and peacebuilding.
UNDP South Sudan

International Women's Day: Empowering more women decision-makers ‘essential’, says Guterres

8 March 2019
Global

Under the theme “Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change”, the United Nations hosted its flagship event celebrating International Women’s Day on Friday to recognize unsung women from across the world, and encourage innovation to transform lives.

Soukaina (left) and Mouna work in the marketing department at Label Vie's corporate headquarters in Rabat. It has 35 supermarkets and 10 "hypermarkets" nationwide, with eight supermarkets in Rabat and one hypermarket in Salé.
World Bank/Arne Hoel

Women’s empowerment ‘essential to global progress’ says Guterres, marking International Day

7 March 2019
Global

Women’s empowerment and gender equality are “essential to global progress”, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres stressed in his message for International Women's Day which this year puts “innovation by women and girls, for women and girls”, at the heart of efforts to achieve gender equality.

Students learning in Makod Primary and Secondary School in Tierkidi Refugee Camp, Gambella Region, Ethiopia.
UNICEFEthiopia/2018/Mersha

Education remains an impossible dream for many refugees and migrants

6 March 2019
Global

The older refugee and migrant children get, the less likely it is that they will get a quality education: less than a quarter of the world’s refugees make it to secondary school, and just one per cent progress to higher education. Even for migrants who settle in wealthy, developed host countries, accessing university is an uphill struggle.

3D structure of HIV infected (blue, green) and uninfected (brown, purple) T cells interacting. The possibility of a cure preventing HIV infection was highlighted for the first time since 2007, by a case in London, publicized on 5 March 2019.
Donald Bliss/NLM/NIH

UN’s AIDS agency ‘greatly encouraged’ by latest scientific breakthrough showing cure is possible

5 March 2019

The UN agency leading the global effort to end AIDS, said on Tuesday that a new case of a patient who has been “functionally cured” of HIV infection, is greatly encouraging, but there is still a long way to go before the illness can be eradicated.

Whale shark in southern Thailand. The theme of the world wildlife day is: 'Life below water: for people and planet'
UNDP Thailand

Ocean life faces ‘onslaught of threats’ from human activity, but tools exist to save it

1 March 2019
Global

Underwater life is severely impacted by an “onslaught of threats,” but we already have the tools to positively influence ocean conservation, the UN said in a statement marking 2019 World Wildlife Day which, this year, is celebrated under the theme “Life Below Water: for people and planet.”