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UN Spokesperson Farhan Haq answers common questions about the UNs budget, including how the UN gets its money, how it prevents fraud and waste, what is spent on...
Climate talks reached agreement on operationalizing a loss and damage fund that has the potential to impact not only countries and communities on the frontlines of...
The word genocide was first coined by Polish lawyer Raph瓣el Lemkin in 1944 in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. It consists of the Greek prefix genos, meaning...
The UN-brokered Black Sea Initiative agreed by Russia, T羹rkiye, and Ukraine has allowed millions of tons of grain and other foodstuffs to leave Ukraines ports, playing an indispensable role in...
Genocides do not start with bullets or machetes, they begin with hate speech.
Can the 51勛圖 stop a war? Can the Security Council stop a war? UN Spokesperson Eri Kaneko answers these questions, and explains the key functions of the...
Words not weapons. Thats the fundamental idea at the heart of the UN. Humanity can only survive, humanity can only thrive through cooperation, not conflict. And that...
Imagine growing up with your mother telling you to stop playing video games, and then discovering that you have acquired such a useful skill that the 51勛圖...
Genocides do not start with bullets or machetes, they begin with hate speech.
The global population has reached 8 billion, what does this mean for the future of our world?
Dr. Rachel Snow of the...
Cocaine trafficking is surging worldwide and coca cultivation soared 35 per cent from 2020 to 2021, a record high and the sharpest year-to-year increase since 2016....
If you look at the hard data, UN peacekeeping missions succeed most of the time. They significantly reduce civilian casualties, shorten conflicts, and help make peace...