By Owen Shumba, Team Leader, Livelihoods and Economic Recovery I recently visited a number of countries on a monitoring mission for the joint IOM-UNDP Global Project on Mainstreaming Migration in National... read more →
Warning that the horrific accounts of rape and sexual assault against Rohingya women and girls fleeing unrest in Myanmar could be “just the tip of the iceberg,” the United Nations... read more →
The United Nations Human Rights Council concluded its 36th session in Geneva, having adopted 33 resolutions, 20 by consensus, addressing multiple themes as well as human rights situations in Yemen,... read more →
Schooling without learning is a terrible waste of precious resources and of human potential, the World Bank said, warning in a new report that millions of young students in low... read more →
By Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Head of Climate Change Adaptation, Global Environmental Finance Unit, UNDP 132 We live in a world of tenuous truths, shortened attention spans, competing priorities, and even-more complicated social... read more →
The United Nations General Assembly wrapped up its 72nd annual general debate, with its President underscoring prevention of conflicts before they break out, support for UN peacekeeping, sustainable development, and... read more →
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres voiced concern about the “potentially destabilizing effects” of yesterday’s referendum in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. “The Secretary-General respects the sovereignty, territorial integrity and unity of Iraq... read more →
By Magdy Martínez-Solimán, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of UNDP’s Bureau for Policy and Programme Support and Oscar Fernández-Taranco, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support Over the past 20 years, the world has... read more →
World leaders pledged to tackle the education crisis that is holding back millions of children and threatening economic development, at a high-level event at United Nations Headquarters in New York... read more →
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, speaking at the same United Nations podium from which the United States denounced the accord curbing Iran’s nuclear programme as one of the ‘worst deals ever,’... read more →