Category: International
2015 Theme: Science for a Sustainable Future; celebrating the UNESCO Science report Science will be essential to reach many of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and, thus, to ensure a sustainable future. The UNESCO Science Report is one of the tools that countries can use to monitor progress towards the goals […]
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) achieved significant progress over the past 15 years, but persistent gaps in official development assistance and insufficient access to markets, affordable medicines and new technologies have highlighted the need for a rejuvenation of the global partnership for development, according to a new United Nations report launched today. “Despite gains towards […]
For the fifth International Day against Nuclear Tests, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed voluntary moratoria on testing imposed by nuclear-armed states but stressed that these cannot substitute for a legally-binding treaty. “The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is essential for the elimination of nuclear weapons,” Mr. Ban said in a message. “It is a […]
An increasing number of children are receiving life-saving vaccinations around the world, according to the latest data released by two United Nations agencies. In a press release issued earlier today, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) confirmed that the number of countries reaching and sustaining 90 per cent vaccination coverage for […]
“It is easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build”– Nelson Mandela Every year on 18 July — the day Nelson Mandela was born — the UN joins a call by the Nelson Mandela Foundation to devote 67 minutes of time to helping others, as a way to […]
The Millennium Development goal of giving life-saving treatment to 15 million people by the end of this year was reached nine months ahead of schedule, according to a report by the UN Aids agency. New HIV infections and Aids-related deaths have fallen by 35 and 41 percent respectively. But areas like sub-Saharan Africa, which accounted […]
In a speedy response to Liberia’s first confirmed cases of Ebola in more than three months, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has begun distributing emergency supplies in the affected communities including tents for isolating those under quarantine, hygiene kits and chlorine and buckets for handwashing stations. In Margibi County, where the body of a […]
It will cost $2.3 billion to send to school the 34 million children and adolescents of conflict–affected countries who are currently not attending educational institutions, which is 10 times the amount being received from humanitarian aid now, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said in a new report released today. “Present targets […]
More than 3,700 migrants were rescued on Monday and Tuesday in the Mediterranean as part of the EU’s coastguard operation. On Monday 2,741 were plucked to safety from 18 overcrowded and unsafe vessels. Six naval vessels rescued a further one thousand on Tuesday. EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg have launched an operation to combat […]
Although the empowerment of women has been among the most significant achievements of the past century, the international community must “push further” in its struggle to ensure the right to education for all girls, the top UN human rights official declared today. “Investing in girls’ education is not only the right thing to do, it […]
