UN – United Nations

“We believe adolescent girls are the most powerful catalysts for change on the planet,” wrote UN Foundation President & CEO Kathy Calvin and Nike Foundation President & CEO Maria Eitel in a piece that appeared on the Guardian website this week. The op-ed highlights the urgent need to promote the rights and well-being of girls everywhere and to make sure girls are a top priority in the global agenda.  This is what girls deserve; it’s

What kind of world do we want to live in? It’s a question that matters to all of us, and a question at the heart of the post-2015 development agenda that will guide global development efforts after 2015. Yesterday, a panel of 27 world leaders submitted to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon a report with recommendations for this agenda.  As John Podesta, a U.S. member of the panel has said, the report is the “first chapter

The annual G8 Summit brings together a small group of world leaders to discuss the important issues of our time.  This year, you have a chance to join the conversation. On Monday, June 10th, one week before the G8 Summit, you are invited to join “G-Everyone,” a day of dialogue that encourages everyone to share their ideas on how technology, innovation and entrepreneurship can address global challenges. G-Everyone will expand the conversation of the G8

“I want to serve the people. And I want every girl, every child, to be educated.” These are the powerful words of Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani teenage girl who was shot by the Taliban last year when returning home from school. When it comes to addressing the needs and rights of adolescent girls worldwide, there is no better advocate than girls themselves. This week, approximately 100 American girls have gathered in Washington, D.C. for the

Urgent challenges like poverty, climate change, and disease cross borders and boundaries, affecting us all.  Solving these global problems requires global cooperation — and in today’s connected world, we have the opportunity and the responsibility to expand cooperation beyond governments to include the ideas of people from around the world. The simple truth is that change on the scale that we need can’t just come from the top down; it has to come from the bottom

The term “smartphone” first appeared in 1997 – the same year that 16-year-old Jack Andraka was born. Since then, smartphones have spread to cover the globe, with more than 1 billion in use worldwide. As for Andraka, it has taken him only 16 years to become a well-respected researcher and innovator who has most recently turned his attention – and his impressive brainpower – to the field of mobile health. “mHealth is amazing because it’s