SDGs

A mother and her new born baby at Karenga Health Centre in Uganda, April 2019.
UNICEF/Zahara Abdul

Monday’s Daily Brief: the cost of maternal healthcare, Sudan and Chad updates, sustainability in focus

3 June 2019
Women

This Monday, top stories includes: the “catastrophic” cost of maternal healthcare; UN condemnation following violence against protesters in Sudan and the killing of a journalist in Chad; and the urgent need for sustainability highlighted through an exhibit in Geneva and a special event in London.

Children sheltering in a school after being displaced by Cyclone Kenneth, in Pemba city, Mozambique.
WFP/Nour Hemici

Friday’s Daily Brief: Fundraising for Mozambique, Assange’s rights, Asia-Pacific development, Somalia and Sudan updates

31 May 2019
Humanitarian Aid

This Friday, we cover: a donor conference to support life-saving and recovery aid for Mozambique following two recent devastating cyclones; the need to respect Wikileaks’ Assange’s rights; how Asia-Pacific is working towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ; news from Somalia and Sudan; and a new stamp honouring Kofi Annan.

A village bank in Takeo province, Cambodia. Photo: Brett Matthews
Brett Matthews

Thursday’s Daily Brief: ambulance attack in Libya, #GlobalGoals defenders, human rights in Cambodia, Swine Fever

9 May 2019
SDGs

On Thursday, we cover: a tragic attack against an ambulance in Libya; six new advocates for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals; a call for a change in political culture in Cambodia; and how Swine Fever in China is affecting global food prices.

Festival SDG in Action, in Bonn, Germany.
SDG Action Campaign

Thursday’s Daily Brief: Press Freedom Day, Tuna Day, cultural dialogue, #GlobalGoals awards, updates on Syria, Somalia, Mali

2 May 2019
Humanitarian Aid

This Thursday, top stories include: the celebrations of World Press Freedom Day and World Tuna Day, events for inter-cultural dialogue in Azerbaijan and for Global Goals action in Germany, and updates from Syria, Somalia and Mali.

Secretary-General António Guterres delivers remarks on International Labour Day.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

In 2019, ‘reasons for hope’ in a world still on ‘red alert’: UN chief Guterres

28 December 2018
Climate and Environment

Last year, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued “a red alert” over a range of dangers confronting the world, which “still persist” as 2019 looms: “These are anxious times for many, and our world is undergoing a stress test,” the UN chief said on Saturday in his message for the New Year.

15-year old Agnes from Tanzania says an operation to correct a cleft lip has changed her life.
CCBRT/Dieter Telemans

First-ever UN report on disability and development, illustrates inclusion gaps

3 December 2018
Human Rights

The United Nations launched its first-ever flagship report on disability and development on Monday; published by, for, and with, persons with disabilities, in the hopes of fostering more accessible, and disability-inclusive societies.

Peer mediators simulate a case of bullying at Branko Radicevic School in Mitrovica North, on May 30, 2018. Snezana Dzogovic, 16, (right) experienced bullying when she was 11. Since being supported by the UNICEF supported Domovik NGO, she has grown to be active as a mediator.
© UNICEF/Anush Babajanyan VII Photo

Bullying: Protection for children is a ‘fundamental human right’ says top UN advocate

8 October 2018
Human Rights

Around 130 million, or one-in-three children worldwide, experience some form of bullying, the United Nations stated on Monday, in its latest report on how children can be better-protected. This form of violence has long-lasting and direct consequences for their health, school performance and overall well-being.

A health worker checks a patients blood sugar levels with blood glucose meter.
PAHO/WHO

Chronic illnesses: UN stands up to stop 41 million avoidable deaths per year

27 September 2018
Health

“Heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, chronic lung disease, depression” – just some of the illnesses outlined by World Health Organization (WHO) chief Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, who drove home the danger by asking delegates to stand up, when they heard the name of an illness that had killed someone they loved: One by one, every single person in the room, got to their feet.

Secretary-General António Guterres speaking at the United Nations Private Sector Forum 2018, at UN Headquarters in New York, on 24 September 2018.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Private business must be a ‘driving force’ for securing peace, curbing climate change: Guterres

24 September 2018
SDGs

The rate of sustainable development is “too slow” and private business has a major role to play in speeding it up, while also slowing the runaway pace of climate change that threatens the entire world with catastrophe, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Monday.

Researchers travelling on a small canal during a field visit to the Sundarbans in Bangladesh.
FAO/Mondal Falgoonee Kumar

Bangladesh: World Heritage Site threatened by ‘heedless industrialisation’ - UN expert

31 July 2018
Economic Development

The Sundarbans forest, a which is the largest contiguous mangrove forest in the world and home to several endangered species, is being threatened by “heedless industrialization”, according to a UN rights expert, who on Tuesday, called on the Government of Bangladesh to halt the process.