UN – United Nations

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

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said climate change “is a humanitarian issue, a development issue, and an issue of security and stability.” The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is preparing a new assessment of the science of climate change.  These reports will be issued over the next 18 months. But here’s what we know today: A new study says almost every scientific paper on global warming in the last 20 years – 97 percent!

Today, there are more than 45 million people around the world who have fled their homes due to war or persecution.  Behind this sobering statistic lie the stories of real people – mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, grandparents and infants whose political and social safety nets have suddenly disappeared and who have been forced to leave their homes. Here are their words: It’s a really bad experience to leave your homeland. Where you were

Last year, a person had to flee his or her home due to conflict or persecution every four seconds on average.  Worldwide, more than 45 million people have been forced from their homes – the highest number in nearly two decades. Today is World Refugee Day, and you can help the United Nations Refugee Agency protect and provide for the people around the world whose lives have been uprooted. Help raise awareness and funds by