Secretary-General António Guterres announced the launch of the UN80 Initiative on 12 March 2025 to rapidly identify efficiencies and improvements, review the implementation of all mandates given to ...

The following is a transcript of remarks delivered by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell in Berlin on 26 March 2025 at the “Europe 2025” Conference. Colleagues, honored guests, lots of ...

This year’s Petersberg Climate Dialogue (PCD), held from 25-26 March 2025 in Berlin, Germany focuses on the preparations for the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) taking place in ...

Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, gave an overview of the peacekeeping operations and challenges.

It all starts with one cup and one choice: In Denmark’s second biggest city Aarhus you get paid when you return your coffee cup. Waste analysis shows cold or hot beverage cups are used for an average ...

While the past decades have seen remarkable progress toward gender equality and human rights, a growing backlash threatens to erode these hard-won gains. Anti-gender movements are mobilizing to ...

The first-ever WHO Collaborating Centre (CC) on Risk Communication, Community Engagement and Infodemic Management (RCCE-IM) has launched at Kristiania University of Applied Sciences in Norway. During ...

From left to right: Yonus, 6; Sohbat Gul, 7; Kafia, 6; and Shazia, 5 — four of the many displaced children living in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Herat. Photo: Maisam Shafiey/NRC ...

First published by the UNODC Liaison Office in Brussels, here. Child sexual exploitation and abuse is a global pandemic that thrives in silence and secrecy with more than 300 million children being ...