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In its earliest days, the United Nations Foundation committed to championing the rights of girls and women, in allegiance to the vision of equality enshrined in the UN Charter and because the dignity and agency of girls and women is essential for a more peaceful and prosperous world for all. 2018 was a year of challenge, but also change. Geeta Rao Gupta, the Executive Director of the 3D Program for Girls and Women and UN […]

On December 11, TIME magazine announced a group of journalists — Jamal Khashoggi of the Washington Post, the surviving staff of Maryland’s Capital Gazette newspaper, the Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, and Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo – as its 2018 “Person of the Year” for “taking great risks in pursuit of greater truths, for the imperfect but essential quest for facts.” The United Nations Foundation is honored that one of these journalists

2018 was a memorable year for the global health community – from a new strategy to new partnerships to new challenges for progress. In May at the World Health Assembly, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus set forward a bold, new vision in the 13th “General Programme of Work” to support countries in reaching all of the health-related targets in the Sustainable Development Goals. The “Triple Billion” Targets set forth in this

Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on the World Economic Forum website. 2018 will go down in the record books as one of seemingly incessant geopolitical acrimony. For many policymakers, the imminent turn of the calendar offers brief respite – a moment to clear one’s head and take stock of the most salient challenges on the horizon. What core problems need to be solved amid fast-shifting strategic alliances and the cacophony of public debates? Ultimately,

Data has been the fashionable topic in sustainable development this year, but it’s always top of our minds at the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. When we were created in 2015, we were tasked with a big job: to bring partners together and make sure that the opportunities of the data revolution were available to, and being used by, everyone working to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It’s all about the relationships, so

It’s no secret that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can’t be achieved by any one nation or organization. Partnerships are at the heart of the SDGs. SDG 17 itself recognizes that the success of the agenda will be impossible without strong collaboration among governments, the private sector, philanthropy, and civil society. As part of the United Nations Secretary-General’s focus on modernizing the UN to better deliver on the SDGs and the Paris Climate Agreement, the

Rarely a day passes without a story on an exciting, or perhaps terrifying, advancement in technology as developers discover new ways to leverage quantum computers, robotics, 3D printing, and artificial intelligence (AI) to solve new and age-old problems alike. One exciting new development that tech watchers may have missed this year: efforts the United Nations has taken to modernize its work and better prepare itself as a platform for global discussions on the promises and

For the past 73 years, the United States and the United Nations have remained essential partners in resolving challenges around the world. As we approach the end of the year, it’s safe to say that 2018 was no different, with the U.S. and the UN collaborating in many important areas despite some challenges. Thanks to the strong partnership between UN Secretary-General António Guterres and U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, the U.S. and the