UN – United Nations

Journalists want to report the story, not become the story. Their desire to find the truth and show what’s really going on can lead them into danger zones and often into conflict with powerful forces. Over the last decade, more than a thousand have been killed doing their jobs, 90% of them local journalists working in their own communities. Worse, 89% of those killings go unresolved (see p. 19 of this UNESCO report). By way […]

The most recent report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sounded the alarm for urgent climate action. According to the report, the difference between 1.5°C and 2°C of global warming matters much more for our world than we realized – more extreme weather, hunger, poverty, and displacement, among other serious impacts. But what does a warmer planet mean for ecosystems and biodiversity? In an editorial for Scientific Advances, two leading researchers

Nearly 70 years ago, the world adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and proclaimed that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” While progress has been made toward this declaration, it will not be fully realized until every woman and girl is in charge of planning when and whether she has a family. Eleanor Roosevelt, who helped create the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, noted that human rights begin

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