UN – United Nations

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series on the founding of the United Nations 70 years ago. You can read the previous post here. — This week saw the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This trade agreement between 12 countries incorporates approximately 40 percent of the world’s economic output. When the treaty is ratified, its provisions will cover 800 million people. But the TPP is still a regional agreement, rather than a […]

Photo credit: Jiro Ose/United Nations Foundation   October 11 is International Day of the Girl – a day adopted by the United Nations to recognize the unique struggles girls face globally, as well as the potential they have to change the world for the better. Girls and women more often bear the consequences of poverty, lack of health care, lack of education, climate change, and other inequalities. Yet when girls are safe, healthy, educated, and

October 17 marks the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty – a mission at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals adopted at the United Nations in September. These global goals form a shared to-do list for the international community to not only end poverty, but create a world where every person can live with dignity and opportunity. What is one thing you should know about extreme poverty that many people get wrong? We’re

Editor’s Note: In honor of World Food Day, we are sharing a guest post from the World Food Programme (WFP), which is working with partners to achieve zero hunger by 2030 as part of the new global goals for sustainable development. Since benefiting from WFP food assistance, Ecuadorian schoolgirl Melany Cuasque is optimistic about what the future holds. No longer going home hungry, she’s able to concentrate on succeeding at school, paving the way for

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series on the founding of the United Nations 70 years ago. You can read the previous post here. The United Nations Charter signed at San Francisco laid the groundwork for the UN as we know it. But the delegates also left many issues unresolved. One of the most important was the location of the new UN headquarters. The UN first decided on a country before it started

This December, world leaders are gathering in Paris for a landmark United Nations convening to complete a new global climate agreement – an extraordinary opportunity for the international community to rise to meet the threat of climate change. To achieve a world where everyone lives with dignity and opportunity – a vision leaders embraced in the global goals for sustainable development – we must take strong action on climate change. Everyone has a role to

On Saturday, October 24, we will celebrate World Polio Day, and there is so much to celebrate.  The past five years in particular have been an exciting time for the polio community with tremendous success and progress toward eradication.  Here are five top memorable moments from the past five years. 1. February 2012: India was removed from the endemic list. Just years prior, India was home to nearly half the global polio cases and considered

As Americans begin to consider the candidates for 2016, they have already made a clear decision about how the right leader will approach the world. A new poll conducted by a bipartisan research team and released today by the Better World Campaign finds that registered voters favor a foreign policy approach that embraces a partnership model. More than 8 in 10 – 82% – of Americans agree that to achieve our foreign policy goals, it

Technology has long been hailed as a democratizing force in the world; it enables people across the globe to relate to one another on a level that could have never been imagined just a few decades ago. We live in a hyper-connected, globalized world – a world that has so much potential to breed the next generation of big ideas. But there are issues that we must overcome to bring these ideas to life, and