UN – United Nations

What do we need to do to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? With 808 days until the target date to achieve the MDGs – eight goals embraced by governments and the UN in 2000 to reduce poverty, hunger, gender inequality, preventable deaths, and environmental degradation by 2015 – it’s a question at the top of many minds. We recently asked a group of leaders to share with us one critical action we should take […]

Today marks World Food Day – a day established by the United Nations to focus the world’s attention on hunger and food security. To get up to speed on where we are in the fight against hunger and how we can increase progress, the UN Foundation recently spoke to Zak Bleicher, a Partnership Officer in the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development. Jenni Lee: What is the state of hunger in the world? Zak Bleicher:

Today is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and a fitting time to learn about where we are in the fight to end poverty. Currently, 1.2 billion people live on less than $1.25 a day. Yet there is reason to be optimistic: Between 1990 and 2010, the global poverty rate was cut in half, which means about 700 million fewer people are living in extreme poverty. Our work is far from done, but

Right in time for UN Day this Thursday, October 24th, the UN Foundation’s sister organization the Better World Campaign just released its latest poll of U.S. voters, and the results couldn’t be clearer: Americans overwhelmingly support the UN’s work — including destroying Syria’s chemical weapons and providing humanitarian aid to refugees — and believe we should pay our dues to the UN on time and in full. In fact, a whopping 88 percent of Americans believe it’s

Nearly 20 years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared tuberculosis (TB) a global public health emergency. Today, according to WHO’s 2013 Global TB report, much progress has been made toward the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goal (MDG 6) of reducing the spread of TB, although there is much more work to be done. Here are five key findings and information about TB from the report: TB is very contagious and airborne. It’s the second

When Franklin Roosevelt called on Americans to celebrate the first UN Day, the term “United Nations” had just been coined to describe the alliance that stood against fascism’s march. But for a dedicated group of internationalists, it was more than a slogan, more even than an alliance, it was the embodiment of an idea that would come to final fruition with the signing of the UN Charter on October 24, 1945. Today, UN Day is

Dennis Ogbe is a U.S. Paralympian and Shot@Life Champion. My dearest son Allen, Welcome to the world Allen! Today you are three weeks old, and I just spent some time rocking you to sleep. As I looked down in my arms, I was as every bit in awe of you as the first moment that I saw you. With your tiny body just a bit bigger than my two hands, I realized how completely vulnerable