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18 June 2024 | Disabilities
Khadija Jallouli, a young Tunisian entrepreneur with a disability, has called for redoubling international efforts aimed at integrating people with disabilities and involving them in decisions related to finding solutions to the challenges they face…
10 June 2024 | Disabilities
Activist, actor and talk show host Nick Herd will be leading the UN News team as its first ever guest editor on Tuesday, when people from around the world gather at UN Headquarters to take part in the largest global meeting on issues that affect…
10 June 2024 | Disabilities
Hundreds of people with disabilities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society representatives alongside ambassadors from around the world are due to meet at UN Headquarters in New York on Tuesday to discuss the challenges and…
09 June 2024 | Disabilities
Youth, making up 25% of the global population, are pivotal in spearheading change. The University of Tokyo UNiTe is a dynamic youth organization that has been connecting young people with the United Nations efforts to protect and promote the rights…
05 June 2024 | Poverty Eradication
Ecosystems are under attack everywhere in the world. The natural areas that are essential to human existence—from farms and lakes to woods and drylands—are drawing closer to their breaking point. Half of the world's population is directly impacted…
05 June 2024 | Disabilities
The UN DESA's Division for Inclusion and Social Development (DISD) recently conducted an interview with Ms. Khadija Jallouli, the founder and CEO of Hawkar. Despite facing physical challenges, Khadija has dedicated her knowledge to the mobility…
27 May 2024 | Poverty Eradication
Building small islands’ resilience to external threats and charting new pathways to sustainable prosperity front and centre at UN Conference
The fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) opened today in Antigua and…
08 May 2024 | Families
Three different families. Three different stories. With one thing in common: Whatever a family’s situation, growing up feeling loved makes a critical difference in a child’s life.
Raising the next generation
In the northern outskirts of La Paz in…
08 May 2024 | Youth
Digital technologies and algorithm-driven software - especially social media - present high risks of privacy invasion, cyberbullying and distraction from learning to young girls, according to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’…
07 May 2024 | Poverty Eradication
World Environment Day (WED) 2024 host, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Nations Environment Programme, (UNEP) have launched campaigns to combat desertification, restore land and build drought resilience ahead of global WED celebrations on…
07 May 2024 | Poverty Eradication
The Global Coalition for Social Justice is an initiative of the ILO Director-General Houngbo, and has been shaped and developed in close consultation with ILO tripartite constituents, and endorsed by the ILO Governing Body in November 2023. The…
07 May 2024 | Poverty Eradication
The United Nations Civil Society Conference is the premier event on the civil society calendar at the United Nations. The Conference offers civil society organizations an opportunity to put a global perspective on a specific issue and brings…