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Lydia, Hélène, Maria, Eman, Mélissa... These are the names of women killed in Belgium over the past year by their partners. Globally, 51,100 women...

During the past four weeks, more than 800 students from schools in Belgium and across Europe were visited by officials from UN entities and...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres spoke at the opening of the 10th Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations in Cascais, Portugal,...

Unique among United Nations agencies, UNRWA, the Palestine Refugee Agency, is mandated by the United Nations’ Member States to provide public-like services directly, including...

Every 10 minutes, a woman is killed by an intimate partner or a family member. This number should be shocking, but what’s even more...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has teamed up with PlanetPlay, a not-for-profit organisation that uses games to promote environmental change, to launch Play2Act....

Icelandic architect Arnhildur Pálmadóttir has successfully designed houses with only 40% of the carbon footprint of comparable conventional buildings. Her efforts to improve sustainability...

monthly issue of the UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter featuring new UN websites, publications and information products

Fourteen countries have announced their intention to intervene in the context of South Africa’s complaint, which accuses Israel of “genocide” in the Gaza Strip,...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed his deep concern over the adoption by the Knesset of Israel of two laws which would likely prevent...

Many Western European leaders have expressed their worries about Monday’s vote by the Israeli Knesset banning the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine...

The United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) is one of the institutional partners of the 9th edition of the Estoril Conferences, held under the...

At the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair, the United Nations hosted a series of impactful panel discussions, delving into the power of storytelling, the role...

Over 300 million tennis balls end up in landfills every year. Mathilde Wittock is a Belgian artist, bio/eco-designer, and material researcher who focuses on...

Forests cover 31 % of the global land area and host most of Earth's terrestrial biodiversity. They provide habitats for 80 % of amphibian...