Twenty-eight companies with a total market capitalization of $1.3 trillion are stepping up to set a new level of climate ambition in response to a call-to-action...
In her inaugural speech as president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Mona Juul, of Norway, underscored that the body’s mandate today remains...
With an unprecedented number of children affected by the Ebola virus outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)...
Israel is a vibrant, multicultural society, with nine million inhabitants who speak 35 different languages. Ongoing development is at the heart of Israeli society. Since the...
Heavy rainfall, severe flooding and landslides across Nepal, India and Bangladesh have killed at least 93 children and put the lives of millions more at risk,...
Ahead of the upcoming 2019 Climate Action Summit, the United Nations, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) and Climate and...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders announces the resumption of life-saving search and rescue operations in the Central Mediterranean, and condemns the criminal inaction of European...
In closing the High-level Segment of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), president Inga Rhonda King assured participants that the session had contributed significantly to advancing...
The world’s people are demanding “transformative change that is fair and sustainable,” Secretary General António Guterres said, calling on government leaders to use the upcoming slate...
