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Annually held on 26 November, World Sustainable Transport Day is the UN’s effort to spotlight the critical role of transport systems in human development — and the urgent need to make those systems…
ITU’s Global Youth Celebration 2025, held on 16 November, brought hundreds of young leaders from around the world together. The celebration in Baku, the Republic of Azerbaijan, highlighted ITU’s…
As the world convenes during COP30, a pressing warning echoes through the halls of global economic planning: delaying climate action isn’t just an environmental risk — it is a macro-economic gamble…
Senegalese native Yaye Coumba Seck is a 56-year-old fish processor and mother of three boys and three girls. Yaye was introduced to fish processing at a young age, as she watched her mother work as a…
Violence against women and girls is one of the most prevalent ongoing human rights violations in the world. Around the world, one in three women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate…
UN DESA’s Population Division published the World Urbanization Prospects 2025, estimating and projecting urbanization for 237 countries and areas of the world for over 12,000 urban settlements with…
Article by UN News“First, we need to end the war. Then, we have to restart the factories,” says Basher Abdullah, advisor to Sudan’s Minister of Industry and Trade. Like many of the world’s…
“A new economy is rising, while the old polluting one is running out of road.”That was the message from UN climate chief Simon Stiell as COP30 wrapped up following marathon talks on Friday night…
Original Article by UNDPThe world is heating. Inequalities are deepening. And yet, across continents, young people are stepping into the cracks of broken systems and reimagining what’s possible.While…
NEW YORK, 20 November 2025 – More than 1 in 5 children in low- and middle-income countries – or 417 million – are severely deprived in at least two vital areas critical for their health,…
Every year, from November 25 to December 10, the world unites for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, a global campaign led by UN Women in partnership with civil society,…
On the 17th of November, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) published the Facts and Figures 2025. The estimates show continuing progress in expanding digital connectivity, however, the…
On Tuesday in Belém, ministers from Colombia, Germany, Kenya, the Marshall Islands, Sierra Leone, the United Kingdom and several other countries, voiced strong support for Brazil’s proposal to…
During the preparation for the Second World Summit for Social Development, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released a powerful reflection on the state of global social progress:…
From climate-fuelled disasters to destruction caused by conflict and other human-made crises, the focus of recovery is often fixed on the visible – collapsed buildings, flooded streets and shattered…
On 5 November during the Second World Summit for Social Development, the Doha Political Declaration was adopted with a pledge to strengthen social protection through policymaking and financing.…