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On Monday, May 23 – the first day of the World Humanitarian Summit – the United Nations Foundation will host a discussion on how the international community can better meet today’s humanitarian challenges. We want you to join – because we all have a stake in the humanitarian crisis, and we can all do something to make a difference for the 125 million people around the world who need aid because of forces beyond their […]

Next week from May 23-28, more than 3,000 delegates from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 194 Member States and partner organizations will gather in Geneva, Switzerland to participate in the largest health policy meeting in the world: the 69th World Health Assembly. The resolutions, policy, and budget decisions made next week will shape how countries tackle issues that touch the lives of billions of people – issues like climate change and health, antimicrobial resistance, how

Editor’s Note: This post is part of the blog series, “Her Goals: Our Future,” which highlights the connections between girls and women and the Sustainable Development Goals. Guest blogger views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the UN Foundation.  I wish you all could meet Gloria. She is the reason why I get up and feel full of energy and hope in the mornings. Gloria lived in her small cottage in Maputo in

Right now the world is grappling with grave humanitarian crises – crises that demand deeper global attention and engagement. Next week, the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit will convene world leaders from across sectors to enhance the international response to humanitarian crises. A priority of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the World Humanitarian Summit is an important moment to reinvigorate solidarity and cooperation to prevent, prepare for, and respond to conflict and disaster. While there is a

When more than 125 million people are in need of humanitarian aid, it’s clear the international community must do more to end suffering and strengthen resilience. Behind this number are real people – mothers like Inas who fled Syria with her daughters and now relies on food aid to feed her family and couples like Ibrahim and Hauna who married in a refugee camp after being forced to leave their homes in Nigeria because of extremists. What

Last week, the crisis in Mali once again landed into front page news. Tragically, the headline remains the same: Terror groups target UN Peacekeepers. On Wednesday, May 18, a UN Peacekeeping convoy hit an improvised explosive device and later came under fire from armed assailants. This horrific attack killed five peacekeepers and injured three others from the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). Wednesday’s attack was unfortunately not an isolated incident. In fact,

What does donning a red nose have to do with helping children around the world? Thursday, May 26 is Red Nose Day, a campaign dedicated to getting “seriously silly” to raise awareness and funds to help children in need. Red Nose Day has raised over $1 billion globally in the last 25 years – now that is seriously amazing.  Red Nose Day in the United States supports 12 charities including Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, an organization

“We are one humanity, with a shared responsibility. Let us resolve here and now not only to keep people alive, but to give people a chance at life in dignity.” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke those words to open the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit, which took place May 23-24 and included 9,000 participants from across the world and across sectors. They represented over 170 countries and came from UN agencies, aid organizations, governments, businesses, faith groups,

“The summit is a way of saying let’s come together, let’s really understand how we can work better”– Stephen O’Brien, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator The World Humanitarian Summit has come to a close in Istanbul. The summit occurred at time in our history when there is a population in need of humanitarian assistance bigger than the number of people living Italy and the UK combined. The summit established a bold agenda—bringing with