Condemning “in the strongest terms” recent terrorist attacks in Iraqi capital, Baghdad, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres yesterday underscored the need to swiftly apprehend and prosecute its perpetrators. In a statement attributable to his... read more →
Marking International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, Secretary-General António Guterres said that peacekeeping must have the tools and rules it needs to adapt to the dangerous and challenging environments they face. In... read more →
By Jacinda Fairholm, Regional Disaster Risk Reduction Advisor, UNDP The most read New York Times article in 2016 was, ‘Why you will marry the wrong person.’ In a follow-up podcast, author Alain de Botton... read more →
For the third year running and with the support of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a tripartite partnership agreement signed between the Bureau for Aliens and Foreign... read more →
By Roy Small, Policy Analyst, HIV, Health and Development Group, BPPS, UNDP Ask the person behind you what the public health enemy number one is. Chances are the answer will be... read more →
Ahead of the Group of Seven summit in Italy, the United Nations children’s agency has urged the leaders of G7 industrialized countries to adopt its six-point action plan for the... read more →
In a speech in a sitting on Sustainable Development held on the sidelines of the 70th World Health Assembly that was held in Geneva, the Director General of the World... read more →
Tourism must not undermine the nature that attracts tourists in the first place, said the head of the United Nations-backed treaty on biological diversity, marking International Day for Biological Diversity.... read more →
The outgoing chief of the United Nations health agency yesterday highlighted the relevance of the World Health Organization (WHO), and offered its decision-making body parting advice that included protecting scientific... read more →
Cultural diversity – the driving force of change and development – is increasingly under threat, United Nations agencies today said, reaffirming support for the cultural diversity that stems from migration.... read more →