Reconciling Jackson and Jackson
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By Ben Jealous —
The party of Andrew Jackson has spent a decade running from him. It should keep the two things...
Climate crisis: UN chief lays out solutions blueprint for clean energy transition
In a major keynote speech at London Climate Action Week, the UN chief highlighted how the world’s dependence on oil is driving both the...
Climate crisis: UN chief lays out solutions blueprint for clean energy transition
In a major keynote speech at London Climate Action Week, the UN chief highlighted how the world’s dependence on oil is driving both the...
Powering resilience: How Indonesia is building a more secure energy future
In Indonesia, United Nations agencies have worked alongside the Government to build a more reliable and resilient energy system which is also helping communities to adapt to a...
For Sale: Children’s Nutrition
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By Dr. Julianne Malveaux —
They are calling it a budget cut. But let’s be clear: when Congress cuts WIC, it is...
Open Forum with the Professor
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In this edition of Vantage Point, Dr. Ron Daniels, aka “the Professor,” hosts an Open Forum on current events and issues...
Global Ebola cases top 1,000 as UN races to reach DR Congo’s most vulnerable
Making up 15 per cent of confirmed cases and over 25 per cent of deaths since the outbreak in April, children are almost twice...
World News in Brief: Pope Leo urges action on hunger, humanitarian strain deepens in...
Speaking at a time of mounting humanitarian need and shrinking resources, the Pope warned that conflict continues to drive food insecurity around the world...
Sudan: Drone attacks endanger civilians and shut down critical services in El Obeid
The warning comes amid ongoing reports of a significant build-up of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the North Kordofan state capital, with the UN Security...
Security Council LIVE: Warnings of ‘dangerous cycle of escalation’ in Ukraine
Deadly drone and missile attacks in Ukraine over the weekend represented a “dangerous cycle of escalation” in Russia’s full-scale four-year-old war, the Security Council...
World at ‘perilous moment’ as leaders warn HIV gains are at risk
At the High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, held every five years since 2001, speakers urged governments to recommit to ending AIDS as a public health threat...
‘Better future for Syria remains within reach,’ UN Security Council hears
“There is now a genuine opportunity to help Syrians move from survival towards recovery,” said Assistant Secretary-General for humanitarian affairs Indrika Ratwatte, on behalf...
Myanmar: Aid decline compounds suffering amid ongoing military attacks
This is happening as foreign actors continue to transfer arms, parts, ammunition and munitions as well as jet fuel and other dual-use items to the military, which risks facilitating violations of...
Afghanistan in crisis: Drought, malnutrition and a worsening humanitarian situation
Aid agencies are doing what they can to help, including by identifying dangerously malnourished children in sparsely populated “ghost villages” where those who can leave do so, said Olga Cherevko from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA. But with nearly 22 million people in need across Afghanistan and the UN’s $1.7 billion appeal only 14...
Conflicts command headlines…protecting peace, less so: The UN Peacebuilding Fund explained
Yet for the past 20 years, the UN Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) has quietly been helping countries to avoid violence, recover from conflict and build...
Art and culture can both fuel and counter hate, UN discussion hears on Juneteenth
Held online with participants from around the world, the discussion – Art Remembers: Culture as Witness and Prevention – explored how creative expression can...
From malaria to energy: Why solutions from the Global South aren’t reaching the people...
Malaria wasn’t on Masaki Umeda’s mind when his drone startup, SORA Technology, launched in 2020 in Nagoya, Japan.Back then, he and his colleagues were...
Ebola in DR Congo: One month on, scaled up response remains insufficient
The DRC now has more than 780 confirmed cases and 180 deaths, while Uganda has recorded 19 confirmed cases, including two deaths.On the ground,...
Sudan: Security Council warns of mass atrocity risk in El Obeid
In a statement on Saturday, Council members voiced concern over the imminent risk of mass atrocities and demanded that the RSF immediately halt its...
For one young refugee in Uganda, basketball is more than a game
He sees young people who, like him, arrived in Uganda after fleeing insecurity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Many are trying to...
UNESCO launches consultation on fair payment for news in the digital age
The initiative comes “at a time when securing the sustainability of news media is more urgent than ever to protect the future of journalism and safeguard...
Old and new challenges for the Human Rights Council as it turns 20
“Human rights were built for moments like this,” said Awa Dabo, the newly appointed Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, “when rights have come...
Survivors of wartime rape share stories of trauma and survival
The vast majority of these acts of degrading brutality go unreported, but for those who do come forward, support provided by United Nations partners...
UN welcomes fresh Lebanon ceasefire reports as rights experts urge Iran accountability
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists at the noon briefing in New York that the UN was “aware of reports indicating that Israel and...
