The severity of Yemen’s humanitarian crisis is inconceivable for many of us — nearly 22 million people in the war-torn country desperately need humanitarian aid and protection. Yet for millions of people in Yemen, it is their reality. Girls and women are particularly vulnerable in emergency situations, which is why UNFPA works to help them – providing health services for pregnant women, women’s hygiene supplies, and counseling for gender-based violence, among other efforts. As this dire […]

On November 19-20, in Accra, Ghana, the United Nations Foundation, in partnership with the Wellcome Trust, the governments of Ghana, Thailand, and the United Kingdom, and the Inter-Agency Coordination Group (IACG) on Antimicrobial Resistance will bring together government ministers, scientists, industry representatives, and civil society leaders for the second international Call to Action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Building on the inaugural Call to Action in 2017 held in Berlin, Germany, this two-day meeting will showcase

From November 25 to December 10, Human Rights Day, the United Nations and partners will urge people everywhere to #HearMeToo and elevate attention to one of the most persistent – yet underrecognized – violations of human rights in our world today: violence against girls and women. While the issue of gender discrimination and abuse has gained attention recently through an array of different grassroots movements around the world like #TimesUp, #MeToo, #Niunamenos, and others, all

Against a background of hurricanes and wildfires pummeling coastlines and destroying homes, four new reports aim to define how future climate change will impact human communities, present the urgency of the global climate challenge, and provide pathways to address it and avoid its worst future impacts. In early October, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Special Report onGlobal Warming of 1.5°C, a landmark report with contributions from more than 90 scientists from 40 countries. The

No child should die from a disease that we know how to prevent – yet an alarming new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that measles is on the rise globally. We have a vaccine to prevent measles, so what is behind the increase in measles cases and how do we protect children so they have a shot at healthy lives? Here are three key facts to know from the

Thirty years after the World Health Organization (WHO) created World AIDS Day, HIV/AIDS is no longer a fatal disease for people who have access to testing and treatment. Today, three out of four people living with HIV know their status. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, working alongside PEPFAR and UNAIDS, has played an outsized role in financing this progress. The impact of Global Fund dollars is clear. Their contributions have helped support 17.5

The 2018 annual conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, happening now, is the most anticipated and consequential such global negotiation since 2015, when the Paris Agreement on climate change itself was reached. First, the urgency of the climate challenge has never been greater or more evident – and thus the pressure is mounting for countries to start making more progress in meeting it. Just last month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the