Independence: it’s what we all want for children everywhere. We hope they’ll have the chance to grow up healthy, go to school, and have every opportunity to reach their full potential. Above all, we want our children to count. Many of us take it for granted, but receiving a birth certificate is crucial for all of this. When you’re counted on the day that you’re born, it’s the first step toward accessing all the opportunities […]

Editor’s Note: In March, we featured the blog post below on one of the world’s silent killers: dangerous smoke from traditional cookstoves. On Tuesday, October 21, from 10:30am-11:30am ET, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves and partners will hold a Twitter chat to raise awareness of the power of clean cooking solutions to improve health and save lives. We hope you will join the chat using hashtag #cookstoves and learn more about the upcoming Cookstoves

What is needed to prepare today’s young people for the future? Opinions vary, but one answer is a good grounding in international affairs. In an increasingly globalized world in which challenges transcend borders, the ability to understand and empathize with other cultures and points of view has become invaluable. As such, UNA-USA and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (AKA), one of the nation’s oldest historically black sororities, have embarked on a new partnership with the

By Joanne Peter, Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action This blog is part of our Innovation Working Group Program series, highlighting the impact mobile technology is having on global health and development around the world. Learn more about the twenty-six mHealth projects funded under the IWG grant program here. In August 2013, Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of Internet.org, a global partnership that aims to make affordable Internet access available to the two-thirds of the world

Amid the Ebola outbreak and continuing threats to peace and security around the world, a new poll released yesterday by our sister organization, the Better World Campaign, finds that a majority of Americans agree that working through the United Nations is essential to addressing the toughest challenges facing our world today. The survey, which was released just two days shy of UN Day, made two things clear: 1. Significant majorities of Republicans, Independents and Democrats

Today, October 24, marks the anniversary of the UN Charter, established in 1945. As the global community works to respond to the Ebola outbreak — which World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan has called “likely the greatest peacetime challenge that the United Nations and its agencies have ever faced” — there has perhaps never been a more appropriate year to honor the working relationship between the U.S. and the UN. As we’ve seen with

The United Nations and its agencies, including the World Health Organization, are on the ground in West Africa, working with governments and non-governmental groups to stop the Ebola outbreak. Along with partners, the UN is constructing Ebola treatment centers, providing medical expertise, airlifting aid including protective gear, delivering food, training health care workers, and much more. The World Health Organization shared with us photographs capturing the response efforts in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and we

By Liza Gross La Fundación de las Naciones Unidas y la Asociación de las Naciones Unidas de EEUU (UNA-USA) reconocieron la destacada contribución de individuos, organizaciones y corporaciones a la labor de las Naciones Unidas en su gala anual celebrada anoche en Nueva York. Aproximadamente 500 huéspedes asistieron a la entrega de los Premios al Liderazgo Global 2014, incluyendo distinguidas personalidades como el célebre empresario Ted Turner, la reina Rania de Jordania, el ex presidente