Sustainability
Women’s empowerment ‘essential to global progress’ says Guterres, marking International Day
“Last year, for the first time, we achieved gender parity in the UN’s Senior Management Group and among those who...
International Women’s Day: Empowering more women decision-makers ‘essential’, says Guterres
UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the event by enumerating some of the world’s collective challenges, “from climate change…to the weakening...
Recreational cannabis poses ‘significant’ health challenges to youth: drugs control body
“Legalization of cannabis for recreational purposes, as seen in a small number of countries, represents not only a challenge to...
SDG Media Compact Interview with Dr. Joannie Marlene Bewa, Young Leader for the SDGs
Q&A Technology and innovation are central to efforts to build solutions to advance gender equality. What is the one biggest...
Syria’s Women and Girls Bike to Beat Climate Change
Six years ago, Sarah Zein decided that the traffic in her hometown Damascus, Syria was too much, and there had...
Break taboo around menstruation, act to end ‘disempowering’ discrimination, say UN experts
Break taboo around menstruation, act to end ‘disempowering’ discrimination, say UN experts A group of seven United Nations rights experts...
93 million children with disabilities ‘among the most likely to be left behind’: UN rights chief
Speaking at a Human Rights Council event highlighting how disabled youngsters are more exposed to violence, abuse and neglect, Ms....
UN’s AIDS agency ‘greatly encouraged’ by ‘functionally cured’ patient breakthrough
UN’s AIDS agency ‘greatly encouraged’ by ‘functionally cured’ patient breakthrough The UN agency leading the global effort to end AIDS,...
Air pollution, the ‘silent killer’ that claims seven million lives a year: rights council hears
At the Human Rights Council in Geneva, David Boyd, Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, insisted that air...
‘Once lost, hearing doesn’t come back,’ World Health Organization warns on World Hearing Day
Worldwide, some 466 million people have disabling hearing loss, and the WHO estimates that by 2050 that figure will almost...
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