UN – United Nations

Twenty-three-year old activist Alejandra Acosta visits a local Spanish high school to involve students in the fight against human trafficking. Thousands of miles away, Neeshad Sharif gathers young climate advocates at a meeting of the Qatari Arab Youth Climate Movement chapter. They are changemakers and members of the United Nations Foundation’s new +SocialGood Connector class, which consists of 13 leaders dedicated to local change and global progress.  +SocialGood is a UN Foundation-led community of changemakers […]

130 years after my great-great-grandfather first got this land, we’re still taking care of it, like my grandfather taught me. And so we still got it. We still holding on to it four generations later. With my daughter, it’ll be the fifth. My granddaughter will be the sixth. The biggest problem they’re gonna have staying in the farming business is subdivisions. It’ll be all the way around it. You know, when a farmer dies and

While many people run from emergencies, these women head into them to help people in need. They are (s)heroes. They are also UN humanitarian workers. World Humanitarian Day on August 19 is an annual moment to recognize the lifesaving work of humanitarian workers around the world. In 2019, the UN is recognizing the courage, challenges, and hard work of women humanitarians. As part of this effort, we are sharing the stories of three UN humanitarian

Bullen (left) laughs with two participants of the WFP Storytellers project during an assignment at the Bidibidi refugee camp in Uganda (©WFP/Hugh Rutherford)   WFP staffer Claire Nevill, who oversees the Storytellers program from the agency’s headquarters in Rome, says the goal is to help lift the voices of those who’ve experienced hunger and poverty firsthand. By teaching photography, videography, and social media skills and providing a platform to tell their own stories, Storytellers hopes

The other major challenge is access. In a country that lacks roads in some of the most remote areas, reaching rural families can be especially difficult. These leaders are not alone. They’re joined by a network of volunteers — all of whom are women — who serve as trusted community ambassadors of sorts, traveling door-to-door to educate households about immunization and administer the oral version of the polio vaccine as drops under the tongue. Fatima

Updated: September 9, 2019 Hurricane Dorian was the strongest storm on record to ever hit the Bahamas — and tied for the most powerful Atlantic hurricane to make landfall. Then, it stalled. For nearly 40 hours, the hurricane churned over Grand Bahama — one of the most populated of the Carribean nation’s islands — causing massive destruction and displacement. With sustained 185 mile-per-hour winds and storm surges as high as 23 feet, the storm battered

Every September, diplomacy gets a major moment: The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which brings together world leaders to discuss urgent global issues and create shared plans of action to tackle them. You may be asking yourself, Why does this matter to me? Here’s why: Global problems cross borders and affect all of us. Global problems require global solutions. At the UN General Assembly, leaders from around the world will discuss the challenges that impact

For decades, Ethiopia has opened its borders to refugees from neighboring countries. But like so many host nations, the country has restricted opportunities for refugees to obtain employment, education, health care, and financial services—until now. As of January 2019, after extensive consultation with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and bold leadership from the country’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the government passed landmark legislation allowing refugees freedom of movement, fuller access to schools and hospitals, more

A new report on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from leading experts has a clear message: The status quo is not enough to achieve the SDGs by 2030. All is not lost though. The report also outlines recommendations for how we can transform our approach to achieve the SDGs and create a more sustainable, just world for all. To be sure, remarkable progress has been achieved in recent decades. Extreme poverty is at the lowest