development

UN Resident Coordinator Mr. Roy Trivedy (right) hands over Timor-Leste's 2018 Human Development Report to the country's Minister for the Council of Ministers, Adriano do Nascimento (left).
UNDP Timor Leste

Better trained, educated youth are key to development across Timor-Leste: UNDP

1 May 2018
Interviews

With nearly three-quarters of Timor-Leste’s population under 35-years-old, young people need better education, skills and training to boost development across the Southeast Asian nation.

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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.

Marlon Brando speaks at UNICEF's New York Headquarters about the desperate needs of many of the world's children. (file)
UNICEF/UN0157660/Speiser

Podcast Classics: Marlon Brando highlights 'life & death' value of fresh flowing water

22 March 2018
Podcast Classics

It’s World Water Day, and for our Podcast Classics series: Marlon Brando narrates the story of how the UN Technical Assistance Administration brought “pure, sweet, flowing” water to one Bolivian village; and a look back at the 1950s struggle to provide access to clean running water in El Salvador.

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Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed (left) addresses the media at a press conference in Minsk, Belarus.
United Nations/Egor Dubrovsky

At leaders forum in Belarus, deputy UN chief urges concrete action on Global Goals

21 February 2018
SDGs

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the most ambitious, universal, people-centred and planet-sensitive set of goals and targets ever conceived by the United Nations, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told a regional leaders forum in Belarus 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.

Cosmas Zavazava, Chief of Department, Project Support and Knowledge Management, International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Photo
Daniel Woldu/ ITU

Least developed countries make progress in mobile internet access

24 January 2018
Interviews

A new report released on Wednesday by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), states that the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are recording impressive progress towards increasing access

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In Uruguay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein (centre) alongside Commissioners from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, launches the Joint Action Mechanism on protection of human rights defenders in the Americas.
OHCHR South America

UN-Americas action plan seeks to strengthen protection of human rights defenders in region

26 October 2017
The United Nations human rights office and its counterpart in the Americas have launched a new and deeper cooperation plan to address one of the most pressing problems in that region – the protection of human rights defenders.
Graphic from the Saudi Communication and Media Center explaining that women are allowed to drive.
Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs

UN Gender Focus: Saudi Arabian women, human trafficking, and youth and development

28 September 2017
UN Gender Focus

UN chief: Saudi Arabian women’s right to drive “an important first step”

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The Peace Through Adult Literacy programme operates with the support from various organizations including the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA).
UN Photo/Harandane Dicko

Global problems need global solutions, UN officials tell ministers at development forum

17 July 2017
Opening the high-level segment of the annual forum designed to discuss implementation of the anti-poverty agenda, top United Nations officials today stressed the importance of multilateralism to address global problems.
A boy walks on a sand bank surrounding a refugee camp in M’bera, Mauritania.
UNICEF/Dragaj

UN and Africa: focus on West and Central Africa, tourism and Côte d’Ivoire

6 July 2017
UN and Africa

Over 7 million children crossing borders in West and Central Africa: UN

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