There are now 1.2 million internally displaced people in Lebanon because of the Hezbollah-Israel conflict which has created a new humanitarian crisis that UN aid agencies are responding to as best ...

At the UN on Thursday, world leaders urged a concerted diplomatic drive to end the war in Gaza and to avert further escalation in the region. Strong demands for genuine UN reform persisted, with ...

“The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals are our shared vision of humanity and a social contract between the world's leaders and the people,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

A brief overview of the GDC and pro-social AI – The Global Digital Compact is a UN initiative designed to lay down a set of shared principles and guidelines for how digital technologies should ...

The United Nations’ General Assembly approved a blueprint to bring the world’s increasingly divided nations together to tackle 21st-century challenges on Sunday. Those issues range from ...

UN Women provides grants to fuel innovative, high-impact programmes by government agencies and civil society groups through two funds—the Fund for Gender Equality and the UN Trust Fund to End Violence ...

The UN's highest body has heard the direst warning yet about the escalating situation in Lebanon. Addressing an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres ...

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The UN Secretariat, as most other UN system organizations, uses the United Nations Global Marketplace (UNGM) as its platform for vendor registration. Vendors may select the level of registration ...

Yet, despite this, women remain largely invisible to, and excluded from, peace processes and negotiations. Against this background, and in response to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’s ...

The real hope may lie beyond the UN’s halls—in the streets of New York, where thousands of nonprofit ... [+] leaders, advocates, business executives, and artists have gathered for Climate Week ...

The UN 2023 Water Conference (22-24 March, 2023) saw the adoption of the Water Action Agenda, representing voluntary commitments of nations and stakeholders to accomplish the Sustainable Development ...