Energy lies at the core of a double challenge: leaving no one behind and protecting the Planet. And clean energy is crucial to its solution. In a world grappling with climate change, clean energy ...

17 December 2024 – Every year, millions of people leave their countries of origin to move abroad. The reasons and circumstances that motivate or compel people to migrate are diverse.

Global leaders, private sector, civil society and technical community unite for comprehensive digital governance, strengthening the Global Digital Compact and declaring the Riyadh IGF Messages ...

On 19 December 2024, the UN General Assembly has adopted resolution A/79/L.49, Graduation of Cambodia and Senegal from the least developed country category. The two countries will graduate from ...

On 17 December, UN DESA hosted an innovative Global Policy Dialogue titled "Making the SDGs Work for and with Persons with Disabilities." This hybrid event was held at the SDG Studio at UN ...

Our world faces many challenges, crises and forces of division — such as poverty, violence, and human rights abuses — among many others — that undermine peace, security, development and ...

This was the Official United Nations World-Wide Web page of the Fourth World Conference on Women, set up by the FWCW Secretariat with the technical support of the United Nations Development ...

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women.

New York - Secretary-General's video message on Human Rights Day [scroll down for French version] New York - Secretary-General's video message to the Central Emergency Response Fund High-Level ...

Meditation is an ancient practice that involves focusing one’s attention on the present moment. Rooted in religious, yogic, and secular traditions across cultures, meditation has been practiced ...