UN – United Nations

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!

G8 leaders are gathered in Northern Ireland today to discuss global issues including how to promote economic growth and transparency. In advance of the G8 Summit, the UN Foundation, Mashable, 92nd Street Y, the UN Development Programme, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ashoka invited you to share ideas about how technology and innovation can address global problems. Throughout the day on June 10, people from 73 countries participated in this dialogue, called “G-Everyone.” 

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

While the World Health Organization (WHO) just released a report on violence against women, it may not fully capture the adverse effects of violence on a woman’s reproductive health (RH). For example, in a culture in which it is normatively permissible to inflict violence on a partner, it is often normatively alright to extend this violence to non-partners as well, because women in general are seen as somehow deserving of violence. And the other way