development

Nepal has promoted farming which helps to reduce the impact of natural disasters.
UNDP Nepal

FROM THE FIELD: Preparing for disaster in Nepal

27 March 2021
Climate and Environment

The UN  is scaling up its efforts to help Nepal, which faces numerous natural threats, to become more resilient, minimize human casualties and preserve livelihoods.

Esther next to a tent she lives in at a camp set up for displaced people at the Jehovas Witness Centre in Dondo, Mozambique. Cyclone Idai displaced thousands of people.
UNICEF/DE WET

New UN report highlights link between gender, climate and security

9 June 2020
Peace and Security

Even as countries buckle under the devastating social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, they must consider the links between gender inequality and crisis, particularly in communities affected by climate change and conflict.

Relaxing debt financing would better allow countries to reduce the impact of the economic crisis and stop COVID-19.
© UNICEF/Mulugeta Ayene

‘Unprecedented’ financing needed to halt recession of ‘unparalleled proportions’: Mohammed

2 June 2020
SDGs

As COVID-19 has halted economic activity and threatens social wellbeing across the globe, the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) held a wide-ranging policy discussion on Tuesday, exploring financing options to address the pandemic and mobilize the resources needed for a proactive recovery.

Community members listen as Peacekeepers from the UN mission in Mali, MINUSMA, conduct a justice and reconciliation meeting in the central Mopti region.
MINUSMA/Gema Cortes

Tuesday’s Daily Brief: Israeli settlements, Sahel crisis, Iran protests, reconciliation for peace, World Toilet Day

19 November 2019
Human Rights

A recap of Tuesday’s stories in brief: UN ‘regret’ over US settlements reversal; Almost daily attacks plunge Sahel into ‘three-country crisis’;  live ammunition reportedly used against Iranian protesters; reconciliation helps ‘repair fractures’, promote peace; call for poorest countries to take leading role in their own development agendas; and World Toilet Day.

Secretary-General António Guterres (right) addresses a peace and security in Africa session at the Second Annual AU-UN Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
UNOAU/Edda Zekarias

‘Wind blowing in the direction of peace’ in Africa: UN Secretary-General

9 July 2018
Peace and Security

Recent developments in Africa indicate that the continent is increasingly moving in the “direction of peace” and enhanced security, the United Nations Secretary-General told journalists in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on Monday.

Carpet weaving is a traditional art in Azerbaijan.
ABAD/Elkhan Ganiyev

FROM THE FIELD: Weaving profits in Azerbaijan

29 June 2018
Economic Development

Artisans in Azerbaijan who practice the traditional art of carpet making are being provided with new business opportunities thanks to a project supported by the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed adds her views to the Human Rights Graffiti Wall at the European Development Days event in Brussels, Belgium, 5 June 2018.
UNRIC/Christophe Verhellen

‘Spotlight Initiative’ can make violence against women a thing of the past, says UN deputy chief

5 June 2018
Women

The launch of a new partnership between the United Nations and European Union, is an essential tool to make violence against women and girls “a thing of the past”, said UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed on Tuesday.

Bishow Parajuli (left), UN Resident Coordinator and Resident Representative for the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Zimbabwe, visiting one of the UN supported resilience and community asset building projects in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe.
UNDP Zimbabwe/Sirak Gebrehiwot

UN development official urges greater international support for Zimbabwe

24 May 2018
Economic Development

With a new administration in place and plans to hold free and fair general elections later this year, authorities in Zimbabwe are hoping to see greater international investment in their country, according to the top United Nations official there.

Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed (left on podium, and on screen) speaks at the opening of the 2018 ECOSOC Partnership Forum. To her right is Marie Chatardová, the President of the Economic and Social Council.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe

Business leaders at UN forum challenged to invest in a more sustainable future for all

4 April 2018
SDGs

Three years into the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United Nations continues brokering new partnerships between governments, the private sector and civil society to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), participants told a forum at UN Headquarters on Wednesday.

Students in Primary Seven at Zanaki Primary School in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during an English language class.
Sarah Farhat/World Bank

‘Our values, beliefs and identity’ are embedded within language, UNESCO says on Mother Language Day

21 February 2018
SDGs

Every two weeks, one of the world’s languages disappears, along with the human history and cultural heritage that accompanies it, the chief of the United Nations cultural agency warned on Wednesday, calling for greater efforts to preserve and promote mother languages and indigenous languages, to bolster inclusion, diversity and ultimately, sustainable development.