UNEP establishes Copenhagen Climate Centre
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today, 15 February, announced that its long-standing collaborating centre in Denmark will be renamed the UNEP Copenhagen Climate...
Leaving No Roma behind during a pandemic, and beyond: a UN...
The first time I met Roma people in the Western Balkan region was in 1999, while I was working in Montenegro. I had just...
UN sustainable energy project in Ukraine finds a new role: fighting...
Home Owners of Ukraine for Sustainable Energy Efficiency Solutions, also known as HOUSES, was initially designed to help Ukrainians lower their energy costs, better...
UN rights office concerned over migrant boat pushbacks in the Mediterranean
The appeal follows reports of failure to assist, and even push back, vessels carrying desperate people in one of the world’s deadliest migration routes,...
FROM THE FIELD: How refugees are helping overwhelmed health systems’ COVID-19...
A global effort is needed now and in the months ahead, to fight the coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic, according to the United Nations, and...
First Person: The power of art in a time of coronavirus...
Aldo Sebastián Cicchini, a violinist at RAI orchestra works at the Teatro alla Scala theatre, Milan., by Margherita Bassani
Aldo Sebastián Cicchini is a violinist...
First Person: ‘Fate’ of Italian nurse, and countless other health workers,...
Laura Lupi works at a COVID-19 hospital in Teramo in the Abruzzo region of Italy to the east of the capital, Rome. On 6...
COVID-19: Czech Roma community faces up to mask challenge
“They said the face masks were desperately needed, and I did not hesitate, says Klara Pulova, from Tanvald, a small town in the north...
UN agriculture agency staff continue to strive for a better world...
FAO leads global efforts to defeat hunger and ensure that everyone has access to high-quality food. The agency is working with WHO and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) to assist...