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Celebrating Ways #YouthLead as Agents of Change for the Global Goals…
To mark International Youth Day this year, the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth will run a campaign focused on…
Youth Force: Transforming Accountable Growth and Recovery from…
Background The world today is home to 1.9 billion young people, most of whom live in developing countries. Young people today…
UN Secretary-General Announces New Youth Climate Advisers
NEW YORK, 16 March 2023 — UN Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the seven young climate leaders who will form his…
Summary of the Youth Consultation on the Establishment of the UN…
On 8 September, co-facilitated by Egypt and Guyana, the General Assembly unanimously adopted the landmark resolution A/RES/76/306…
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Summary of the Youth Consultation on the Establishment of the UN Youth Office On 8 September, co-facilitated by Egypt and Guyana,…
United Nations Announces 17 New Young Leaders for the Sustainable…
United Nations Announces 17 New Young Leaders for the Sustainable Development Goals Young Leaders for the SDGs is a flagship…
A successful return home to Sudan
Migrants who return home often face significant obstacles in rebuilding their lives. When her situation in Egypt became too…
Egypt prepares for flagship UN climate conference, in a year of…
Regional authorities in Egypt, the host country of the 2022 UN climate conference (COP27), are ramping up initiatives designed to…
One third of Gaza Strip population in need of psychological and…
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported an increase in the levels of mental disorders…
Dealing with the trauma of displacement in The Gambia
Thousands of Senegalese have been forced to flee their homes and seek refuge in The Gambia, after clashes broke out earlier this…
Women lead marine restoration efforts in the UNESCO Seaflower…
Did you know that women represent just 38 per cent of all ocean scientists? A women-led community organisation in the Seaflower…
Pakistan: More than 6.4 million in ‘dire need’ after unprecedented…
The scale of the humanitarian crisis in Pakistan is unprecedented, with a third of the country under water, UN humanitarians…
Ukraine: ‘Physical integrity’ of Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant ‘has been…
Further damage to the embattled Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine “cannot” be allowed to happen, the head of the…
World food prices drop for fifth consecutive month: FAO
World food prices have fallen for a fifth consecutive month but are still nearly eight per cent higher than a year ago, the UN…
Police in the field embody ‘promise, hope and optimism’ of whole UN:…
Police officers from more than 90 countries who serve at UN operations around the world represent “multilateralism in action”,…
UNESCO chief calls for transforming education, with 244 million still…
The bell is ringing for the start of a new school year in many countries, but inequalities in access to education are keeping…
China responsible for ‘serious human rights violations’ in Xinjiang…
A long-awaited report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) into what China refers to as the…
Sri Lanka: WFP helps alleviate stress of pregnancy amidst…
The queue of women grows steadily outside a government clinic in Kuppiyawatta, in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo. In just over…
Ukraine: IAEA experts arrive in Zaporizhzhia on mission to nuclear…
Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Wednesday, the latest…
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