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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

On December 10, the most translated document in the world – the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) – turns 70 years old. While the declaration has established enduring human rights principles for everyone, everywhere and has become a central guiding force for the United Nations, the full reach and scope of its impact is often overlooked – or taken for granted. We spoke with Andrew Gilmour, the UN’s Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, to

In 2015, all governments stood together as they approved the Sustainable Development Goals and made a commitment to achieve health and well-being for all. To not leave anyone behind on this journey, it’s critical to have diverse voices – especially the voices of the most vulnerable – represented across all levels of global health programs and policies. Under the leadership of Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized that health

I was privileged to be George H.W. Bush’s chief speechwriter in his last year as Vice President, as he was beginning his 1988 campaign for the White House. He was self-effacing to a fault, having been raised not to brag or boast. He was so well trained and generous that his boyhood nickname was “Have half” – he was always willing to share. This was not a political asset, though: He was so adverse to

As part of our “Americans in the UN” project to share the stories of Americans who work for the United Nations, we connected with Kenneth Gluck, the Deputy Special Representative and Deputy Head of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). Prior to joining UN Peacekeeping, Gluck served as Director of Operations for Médecins Sans Frontières. He started his career as a journalist for The Miami Herald, The Dallas Morning