Danish Camilla Brückner new Director of the UN Office in Brussels
Camilla Brückner is the new Director of the UN Office in Brussels. Brückner most recently served as the Director of the UNDP Nordic Representative...
Secretary-General to Moscow and Kiyv for talks
António Guterres the Secretary-General will visit Moscow, Russian Federation, on April 25th. He will have a working meeting and lunch with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The Secretary-General will be received by President Vladimir Putin.
Guterres at Stockholm+50: “End the suicidal war against nature”
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on world leaders to change course and end a “senseless and suicidal war against nature” at the opening of...
Ethiopia: food assistance and fuel reach Tigray
Trucks with food assistance and fuel have reached Tigray and Afar following the declaration of the humanitarian truce.
After 17 months of conflict in Ethiopia,...
United Nations Launches the Football for the Goals Initiative
Today, on the first day of UEFA Women’s EURO 2022, the United Nations is launching Football for the Goals, a new United Nations initiative that provides a platform for the global football community to engage with and advocate for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
She writes with her heart in Sápmi
The Inuits of Greenland and the Sami of Finland, Norway and Sweden are the Indigenous people of the Nordic Countries. On the occasion of...
The entrance to the “centre of the earth” may disappear within...
The glaciers that have given Iceland its name will be gone within two centuries and all but the biggest one by the end of...
UNRWA: Finland and Iceland suspend contributions, the 3 Scandinavian countries continue
Finland and Iceland have suspended their contributions to UNRWA following allegations that a dozen staff members had participated in the terrorist attack on Israel...
UNICEF: When the world fails to educate its children, we all...
As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, 23 countries – home to around 405 million schoolchildren – are yet to fully open schools,...
Climate Change threatens the harbinger of spring
A sure sign of spring in northern Europe is the arrival of the Arctic tern, but the warming of the oceans in its nesting...
The much beloved Atlantic puffin in graver danger than estimated
The Atlantic Puffin, one of the world´s most photographed birds, may be in more danger of extinction than scientists had estimated. It has already...
Our health, our planet
Human impact on the environment is increasing the risk of emerging infectious diseases in humans, over 60% of which originate from animals, mainly from...
Sweden: Open pit mine will endanger indigenous lands – UN experts
GENEVA (10 February 2022) - UN human rights experts* today urged Sweden not to issue a licence for an iron-ore mine in the Gállok...
UNESCO and NORAD join forces to translate storybooks for Ukrainian...
UNESCO, Norway and several partners have launched a campaign called "Translate a Story Ukraine".
Since the start of the war in Ukraine on 24 February...
Secretary-General requests meetings in Moscow and Kiyv
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has written separate letters to the leaders of Russia and Ukraine to request meetings with them in their respective capitals.
UN...