World must ‘act and deliver’, match Pakistan’s compassion for refugees, says UN chief
UN Photo/Mark Garten Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the International Conference on 40 Years of Hosting Afghan Refugees in Pakistan, in Islamabad. Pakistan’s solidarity and compassion for hosting Afghan refugees is a remarkable blueprint that the rest of the world should follow. That’s the message from UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who spoke at an international conference in Islamabad – where he also called for […]
World Urban Forum ends with call for united action to ensure sustainable future for cities and towns
UN-HABITAT This young lady is participating in the Tenth World Aurban Forum (WUF10), which wrapped up in Abu Dahbi on 13 February 2020. The Forum was established in 2001 by the UN to address one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: rapid urbanization The premier international gathering on the future of cities wrapped up on Thursday in […]
Teenage girls’ education, ‘an indispensable foundation’ for achieving development goals: Guterres
World Bank/Arne Hoel Students in computer programming class at Al Shami Girls Secondary School in the West Bank. Promoting education for adolescent girls is an “indispensable foundation for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals”, Secretary-General António Guterres declared at the launch event of the Drive for 5 education initiative at UN Headquarters on Tuesday, hosted by the Irish […]
Hospitals in Yemen attacked, disrupting healthcare for thousands of vulnerable civilians
IOM Milhah, one of over 14,000 people displaced to Marib and Al Jawf, Yemen, in the past two weeks Attacks on health facilities in Yemen’s Marib province, East of the capital Sana’a, have left some 15,000 people – many of them displaced from other parts of the country – with severely limited options for medical […]
With science ‘held back by a gender gap’, Guterres calls for more empowerment for women and girls
© UNDP India Women in India are being trained in plastic engineering. Fewer than 30 per cent of the world’s scientific researchers are women: that’s just one of the statistics showing how many challenges remain for women and girls in the scientific field, as the world marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, […]
AU Summit: Guterres calls for ‘collective, comprehensive, coordinated’ response to challenges facing Africa
Daniel Getachew UN Secretary-General António Guterres, addressing the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 9 February, 2020. The challenges facing African nations are “complex, multi-faceted and far-reaching” but a “collective, comprehensive and coordinated” response by the global community will build on the momentum that already exists to help the continent thrive, the UN chief told the […]