United States

National governments are the main drivers of change to reduce harmful emissions.
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World’s two largest economies commit to climate action – Guterres

21 September 2021
Climate and Environment

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday welcomed important commitments made towards climate action by the world’s two largest economies, as the 76th High Level Debate began in New York.

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. of the United States of America addresses the general debate of the UN General Assembly’s 76th session.
UN Photo/Cia Pak

At UN, Biden pledges new era of ‘relentless diplomacy’ to tackle global challenges

21 September 2021
UN Affairs

In his inaugural address to the annual gathering of world leaders at the UN, United States President Joseph Biden on Tuesday called for a new era of global unity against the compounding crises of COVID-19, climate change and insecurity.

A former refugee and now farmer member of the Somali Bantu Community Association in Lewiston, Maine, tends to a goat herd.
Hazel Plunkett

US plan to increase refugee resettlement welcomed by UNHCR

21 September 2021
Migrants and Refugees

United States President Joe Biden’s proposal to raise the target for refugee resettlement there in the coming fiscal year to 125,000 people, has been welcomed by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR).

The Temple of Charyos in southern Iraq, built during the same Mesopotamian era when the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet was inscribed.
UNESCO/Qahtan Al-Abeed

UNESCO hails return of looted ancient Gilgamesh tablet to Iraq

20 September 2021
Culture and Education

The Gilgamesh Dream Tablet - one of the oldest surviving literary works in history - is to be returned to Iraq by the United States later this week, the UN agency for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO), said on Monday.

No Denying It Podcast - Episode 03 Cover
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Dia Mirza Introduces Aditi Mayer

9 September 2021
No Denying It

When we decolonize fashion, the climate benefits too.

Aditi Mayer is an American blogger and organizer of South Asian heritage. Ms. Mayer uses her social media platform to host conversations about fast fashion, climate, race, and gender. 

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No Denying It Podcast - Episode 03 Cover
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No Denying It episode 3: Dia Mirza Introduces Aditi Mayer

8 September 2021
Climate and Environment

In the third episode of the UN climate action podcast, No Denying It, Bollywood actor and UN Goodwill Ambassador Dia Mirza introduces sustainable fashion advocate Aditi Mayer, who explains the links between the fashion industry, the climate crisis, and colonialism.

Asylum seekers, including children, at the Matamoros camp awaiting their US immigration hearings in Mexico.
UNICEF/César Amador

UNHCR alarmed over US 'expulsion flights' to southern Mexico

11 August 2021
Migrants and Refugees

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) raised concern on Wednesday over a new policy by the United States, using public health orders linked to COVID-19, to expel some asylum-seekers and migrants by flying them to southern Mexico.

UN General Assembly votes on the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

UN General Assembly calls for US to end Cuba embargo for 29th consecutive year

23 June 2021
UN Affairs

A total of 184 countries on Wednesday voted in favour of a resolution to demand the end of the US economic blockade on Cuba, for the 29th year in a row, with the United States and Israel voting against.

Migrant children at Nest, a UNICEF-supported child friendly space in Tijuana, a border city of Mexico adjacent to San Diego of the United States.
© UNICEF/Luis Kelly

UNHCR chief calls on US to end COVID-19 asylum restrictions at the Mexico border

20 May 2021
Migrants and Refugees

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has appealed to the Government of the United States to “swiftly lift” the public health-related asylum restrictions that remain in effect at the southern border, and to restore access to asylum for the people “whose lives depend on it”.

Dateline Geneva Podcast
UN News

UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva - Madagascar crisis, Africa COVID alert, US lifts vaccine protections, South Sudan schools reopen

6 May 2021
UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva

In this week’s UN Catch-Up: a veteran aid worker’s take on the distressing scale of the humanitarian crisis in Southern Madagascar – it’s on the “periphery of famine”, he tells us, and not for the first time.

There’s an alert too from WHO on Africa where a “third wave “of coronavirus infections is feared, along with some good news – and some not so good - from South Sudan, where schools have reopened after lockdown, and positive news from the United States, which has decided to lift patent restrictions on COVID vaccines. 

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