The high-level week provides a timely opportunity to support Gabon on this journey; advocate for climate justice, mobilize more support from the international community, strengthen partnerships and exchange new ideas on how to scale-up climate action across the continent and deliver on the promises on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
A $160 million emergency plan to help Pakistan deal with devastating flooding has been launched by the United Nations, aiming to reach “5.2 million of the most vulnerable people in the country”.
Since the launch of agenda 2030, the UN Teams in Central Asia have been working with host governments to make lasting progress towards SDG 6. From the healthcare sector to agriculture to education, UN agencies across the region have taken a number of concrete steps to improve access to clean water and strengthen the region's water security.
Today marks five years since the start of the forced mass displacement of Rohingya and other communities from Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Around one million refugees remain sheltered in Bangladesh, without immediate prospects for return, while more than 150,000 Rohingya people are still confined in camps in Rakhine.
Faced with a deteriorating nutrition situation in the Sahrawi refugee camps, including over 75 percent cuts in food rations, the UN team in Algeria appeals for the international community’s increased support for lifesaving food and nutrition assistance to refugees risking serious food insecurity and malnutrition.
The “senseless war” in Ukraine is now six months old, with no end in sight, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Wednesday, repeating his ongoing appeal for peace.
In his blog, UN Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria Imran Riza explains that early recovery and resilience programming has been at the core of the UN team’s work over the last few years.
In Kyrgyzstan, 2,061 out of 2,080 schools already got internet access. But connecting the last 1% of schools in the country requires truly innovative technologies and sustainable financing solutions.
One year after Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, Ramiz Alakbarov, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Afghanistan, reflects on the work the UN team on the ground has done to save lives while sustaining essential services and preserving key community systems.
Here are some of the UN teams’ stories that trended in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish in the first half of 2022, showing the issues that matter to our readers — and illustrating our efforts to ensure no one is left behind as we strive to deliver better, together.
