Biodiversity and business on agenda at key Manchester gathering
With seven million hectares of forest – roughly the size of the Republic of Ireland – destroyed every year, the need to address biodiversity...
Global survivors gather in The Hague to discuss the meaning of...
Survivors of atrocities in Myanmar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq, Palestine and Sudan gathered in The Hague at the end of January to reflect on...
UN Cinema screening of The Last Ones of Auschwitz held in...
To mark the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust (27 January), the United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC), in cooperation...
Secretary-General on UN at 80: Humanity strongest when we stand as...
Powerful forces are lining up to undermine global cooperation, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned at a landmark event commemorating the UN’s 80th anniversary in...
Capturing Change: Coral Reefs to Classrooms
To mark the 80th anniversary of the United Nations, the UN has launched a global photo exhibition entitled Shared Lives, Shared Future. The exhibition...
EU: UNHCR recommendations on asylum
As displacement globally remains at high levels, driven by conflict and persecution, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, calls on the Cypriot and Irish Presidencies of the Council of the...
In Pictures: first-ever UN General Assembly in London 80 years ago
Eighty years ago, the first-ever meeting of the United Nations General Assembly took place in the United Kingdom. On 10 January 1946, delegates gathered...
UN Secretary-General: 2026 New Year’s Message
As we enter the new year, the world stands at a crossroads.
Chaos and uncertainty surround us.
Division. Violence. Climate breakdown. And systemic violations of international...
Hundreds of students participate in the UN’s 2025 #Back2School campaign
Over the past two months, about 750 students from schools in Belgium, the United Kingdom and Greece were visited by officials from UN entities...
UNRIC Library Backgrounder: Venezuela
Looking for information on the situation in Venezuela. Then check out this backgrounder.
AIDS: 1 in 9 people living with AIDS in Western Europe...
More than half of people living with HIV in Europe were diagnosed too late for optimal treatment in 2024 — a “critical testing failure,”...
EU and UNHCR art project: “Hope is the fire”
At a time when 117 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes, UNHCR and EU has launched a mural art project that...
Europe: violence against women, a public health issue
"Critically inadequate": this is how the World Health Organization (WHO) describes the health sector's response to violence against women and girls in Europe, "leaving...
COP30: countries pledge to fight false information
Several European countries are among 13 nations who have signed the first-ever Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change. The signatories pledge to fight back...
Why Human Mobility Matters at COP 30 — And Why the...
As world leaders gather in Belém, Brazil, for COP 30—the 30th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)—one...