Youth jobless rate falls to 15-year low, says UN labour agency
“Demographic trends, notably the African ‘youthquake’, means creating enough decent jobs will be critical for social justice and the global economy,” added the...
Northern Thai communities put nature before profit
The Indigenous Karen people and the Thai Lanna community of Thailand are concerned about plans to divert and dam the Yuam river and its...
Global unemployment set to decline slightly this year: UN labour agency
The updated World Employment and Social Outlook report predicts that the global unemployment rate will be 4.9 per cent in 2024, slightly down from...
How Creationists can follow up with the critiques of Evolutionists, Atheists, and other Anti-Creationists...
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Undoubtedly, as far as the origin of the universe is concerned, a significant...
‘All hands on deck’ in Antigua and Barbuda as small island States chart course...
The Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) will bring together governments, the UN, civil society, the private sector and leading youth...
Africa and Europe can shape a fairer global system
But António Guterres warns this shift will not guarantee stability. “Multipolarity alone is no guarantee of peace,” he said. Without strong cooperation, it can fuel rivalry...
Workers face worsening inequality without urgent reforms, UN agency warns
That is the warning outlined in a new assessment released on Friday by the UN International Labour Organization (ILO), which urges governments, employers and...
The orange economy: Where creativity fuels prosperity
Up pops the vibrant world of an orange economy, also known as the creative economy.But, what exactly is it, and how does it foster...
SIDS drowning in debt and ‘running on empty’, warns Guterres in Antigua
That’s the warning from UN Secretary-General António Guterres on day two of the pivotal Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4), taking...
Summit of the Future Explainer: Time to rethink ‘outdated and ineffective’ international financial architecture
“The international financial architecture is outdated and ineffective and we are simply not equipped to take on a wide range of emerging issues,” UN...
China-based inventors lead on global GenAI patents: UN report
According to the agency’s Patent Landscape Report, between 2014-2023, more than 38,000 GenAI patents came out of China, six times more than those filed...
Wages are recovering after negative shift in 2022, says UN labour agency
“If this trend is confirmed, it will be the largest gain in more than 15 years… however, this positive trend is not shared equally...
Universe-origin scientist shares 3 world-shaking, lifesaving truths about the separation of science and faith...
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Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality
Presented during the UN’s 4th International Conference on Financing for Development, taking place this week in Sevilla, the proposal highlights a growing problem: the...
Scientifically unchaining the power of the turbulence code that cracked the universe formation
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Scientists and engineers have long known that cracking the code of turbulence would be highly gratifying, but they did not know...
UN summit confronts AI’s dawn of wonders and warnings
The AI for Good Global Summit 2025 brings together governments, tech leaders, academics, civil society and young people to explore how artificial intelligence can...
World News in Brief: Fresh fighting in eastern DR Congo, global trade update, elections...
Over 850,000 civilians have been displaced in South Kivu province, nearly half of them children, according to the agency.Many are living in precarious conditions,...
Can industrial growth and climate action go hand in hand?
In Namibia’s Daures region, a bold experiment aims to prove economies can create jobs without fossil fuels. When completed, Daures Green Hydrogen Village will sustainably...
Industry at the heart of global solutions: Global summit opens in Riyadh
“Industrial development is critical to strengthening economies, fighting poverty, and creating jobs and prosperity,” declared UN Secretary-General António Guterres in his message to the...
80 million more children benefiting from school meals, WFP reports
The number of children receiving school meals through government-led programmes has gone up by 20 per cent since 2020, found the latest edition of...
Summit of the Future Explainer: The push to connect a digitally divided world and...
Earlier this year, an audience in a Geneva conference hall sat captivated by a video screen carrying live pictures of a 25-year-old man in...
Celebrating the potential and promise of the largest youth generation ever
Secretary-General António Guterres said empowering young people in a fair and hopeful world reaffirms the UN promise that every person has the right to make...
UN hub reaches remote Pacific islanders: A UN Resident Coordinator blog
“They do not want to leave their ancestral places, even if they go under,” said Jaap van Hierden.
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Aid teams cite huge challenges in tackling new Sudan cholera outbreak
“The needs are huge in Sudan; we are talking about people dying of hunger, we have conflict, we have protection issues, we have displacements...
