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The principle is simple: give what you can – whether it’s one meal or one year of meals – and know that it makes a difference. A meal supplied by the United Nations World Food...

monthly issue of the UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter featuring new UN websites and publications, with a special focus on COVID-19 information

In "Against the Odds", a brand-new podcast series from UNAIDS, extraordinary people are asked what made them winners when all the odds were stacked against them. How did they overcome life-changing challenges? And what...

On 23 July, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), declared a public health emergency of international concern over the outbreak of monkeypox. This public health emergency is defined by the...

When 45-year-old Icelandic entrepreneur Haraldur Thorleifsson was one day unable to access a corner shop in his wheelchair, while the rest of the family entered to buy some soft drinks, a shift happened. It was not the first time Mr Thorleifsson, who has been a wheelchair user for the past two decades, had been split from his family in such a way.

The inhabitants of Kankaanpää in western Finland need not worry about heating during the coming winter as much as fellow Europeans. About a hundred homes, a few offices, and the municipal swimming pool in...