Last month, The United Nations today announced the appointment of Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the UN’s first Global Advocate for Human-centric Digital Governance, a newly established role designed to ...

An estimated 4.9 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2024, including 2.3 million newborns, according to new United Nations estimates released on Tuesday – highlighting a worrying ...

General for the Middle East, Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, and Peace Operations, Mr. Khaled Khiari, will travel to Geneva, ...

World Water Day 2026, marked on 22 March, focuses on safe water and sanitation as human rights and critical enablers of gender equality.

The Secretary-General asserts once more that the war in the Middle East must stop. Diplomacy must prevail.All Security Council resolutions must be implemented. The latest one, resolution 2817, must be ...

Which countries suffer from high levels of inequality? Has global inequality declined over the past three decades, or remained persistently high? Surprisingly, the answers depend on where you look.

In 2026, the theme for the International Day of Forests, Forests and Economies, draws attention to the essential role forests play in sustaining global and national economies.

International Equal Pay Day, celebrated on 18 September, represents the longstanding efforts towards the achievement of equal pay for work of equal value. It further builds on the United Nations' ...