International Days

Methadone is dispensed by a nurse to a former heroin addict in Viet Nam.
UNODC/PTRS/Nick Danziger

Science, evidence-based facts, key to help end scourge of drug abuse: UN chief

26 June 2021
Law and Crime Prevention

The world’s drug problem remains an urgent challenge that threatens to exacerbate COVID-19 pandemic impacts and hinder a healthy and inclusive recovery, warned the UN Secretary General ahead of The International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

Conflict and displacement place women and girls at increased risk of gender-based violence.
© UNICEF/Vincent Tremeau

Guterres: Bring crimes of sexual violence in conflict out of ‘the shadows’, punish perpetrators

17 June 2021
Human Rights

Sexual violence in conflict “reverberates down generations” and threatens both human and international security, the UN chief said on Thursday in his message for the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict.

Indian women participate in training providing them with skills, knowledge and confidence to set up their own business or find work.
© UNICEF/Sharron Lovell

Lack of women in key decision-making ‘should not be allowed’ – UN Women chief 

8 March 2021
Women

Exclusion of women in decisions that affect their lives is “bad governance [and] should not be allowed”, the UN Women chief said on Monday, International Women’s Day. 

A participant expresses his views on an on-air radio debate programme.
UN Photo/Tim McKulka

Both radio and sports can help people achieve their potential, says UN on World Radio Day

13 February 2018
UN Affairs

In an era of dramatic advances in communications, radio retains its power to entertain, educate, inform and inspire, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said, marking World Radio Day with a call to celebrate both radio and sports as ways of helping people achieve their potential.