SDGs and music: agents of change in action
The fifth edition of the SDG Global Festival of Action saw 20,000 people virtually gathered across Europe to discuss SDG trends as a way...
EU airlines join forces with UNICEF to transport COVID-19 vaccines around...
Major European airlines are among those helping UNICEF in its historic mission to deliver COVID-19 vaccines, essential medicines and medical devices across the globe...
‘A Turning Point for People and Planet’
SDG GLOBAL FESTIVAL OF ACTION, 25 - 26 MARCH 2021
Under the theme ‘A Turning Point for People and Planet’, the fifth SDG Global...
By protecting plants, we are protecting life – an interview with...
“Gardens in this part of the world are political. We need to change the way we garden. Without soil health, without plant health we...
The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution
On 10 March, Ciné-ONU Brussels, Vienna and Geneva – in partnership with UN Women, UNFPA, and the European Commission – hosted an online screening of...
From the film Blade Runner to Sustainable Development
What do Blade Runner and the “I-would-rather-go-naked-than wear-fur” campaign have in common? On the surface nothing, except that their combined effect triggered a fashion...
World stands at critical moment to deliver on 2030 Agenda –...
The world is at a critical moment to deliver on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said on Wednesday,...
UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter – March 2021
monthly issue of the UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter featuring new UN websites and publications, with a special focus on COVID-19 information
Women disproportionately at risk of poverty in EU – UN expert
Women in Europe should be given “greater economic independence” through equal pay, childcare support and the sharing of domestic duties to ensure that they...
Quiz: World Wildlife Day 2021
For World Wildlife Day on 3 March, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is calling “on governments, businesses and people everywhere to scale up efforts...
The people of Yemen are in desperate need for help
High-Level Pledging Event for the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen.
Guterres calls failure to share vaccines a “moral outrage”
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres today criticized rich countries for stockpiling COVID-19 vaccines.
“The latest moral outrage is the failure to ensure equity in vaccination...
UN Secretary-General welcomes return of the United States to the Paris...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the return of the United States to the Paris Agreement on climate change amid grave concerns about the acute lack...
Fight against pandemic and climate change key issues at Munich Security...
The Munich Security Conference kicked off Friday as a “special edition” with world leaders attending the annual event virtually because of the pandemic.
UN Secretary-General...
“The World is in Your Hands” says Monty Don
“The world is in your hands and the world begins at your door. So, look after the world at your door and then, there’s a chance...