Ban Jiu is one of the estimated 1.25 million people who are living with HIV (PLHIV) in China. He soon realized that public awareness of HIV/AIDS was still limited and that he needed to take the lead on a campaign to increase people’s understanding of this challenge.
As a former Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Coordinator for UNFPA in Guyana, Wemyss de Florimonte shares her journey toward self-healing and her passion for helping others.
In Liberia, to prevent and peacefully manage land-related conflicts, the Government together with UN Women, WFP and UNDP work with support from the Peacebuilding Fund to strengthen coordination on land governance initiatives, implement the land decentralization policy and support alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.
Elena Panova is the UN Resident Coordinator in Egypt charged with coordinating the UN system development activities in the country. In this interview with the Africa Renewal’s Kingsley Ighobor, she discusses the extraordinary planning that went into organising COP27, the effects of climate change in Egypt, and her hopes for COP27.
Ramiz Alakbarov, UN Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator in Afghanistan, explains how the UN team is helping ordinary Afghans, who often bear the brunt of environmental disasters, through coordination and long-term climate adaptation support.
This year’s UN Climate Conference takes place in Sharm el-Sheikh, against a backdrop of extreme weather events worldwide, an energy crisis propelled by the war in Ukraine, and scientific data reiterating that the world is not doing enough to tackle carbon emissions and protect the future of our planet.
Drought, flooding and rising sea levels are creating havoc across our continent – we need support from richer nations to adapt, explains UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed.
On several different occasions, the UN Resident Coordinator in Honduras, Alice Shackelford, visited communities along the southern border to learn firsthand about the situation facing refugees and migrants in the area and meet with government entities, humanitarian agencies and civil society organizations to coordinate protection efforts.
