UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

Education is a basic human right that works to raise men and women out of poverty, level inequalities and ensure sustainable development. But worldwide 244 million children and youth are still out of ...

Welcome to the UN Office of the Special Adviser on Africa! Advancing Africa's development and global leadership through multilateralism. A series of conversations on Africa's global leadership with ...

Eighty years after its founding, the UN system remains central to advancing peace, development, humanitarian action, and human rights, supporting millions of people every year. As challenges grow more ...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid press briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations ...

The seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) opens on 19 October 2026 in Yerevan, Armenia, and runs until 30 October. It will be ...

In 2012, spearheaded by UN Women, the United Nations agreed on the landmark UN System-wide Action Plan (UN-SWAP) on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (GEEW). The Action Plan implements the ...

UNESCO established the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) in 2000 in response to a call from the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) to produce a UN system-wide periodic global ...

The Human Rights Committee and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon held an event to mark the sixtieth anniversaries of their respective Covenants, the International ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

During a crisis, it is essential that we can reach people in need and that they can access humanitarian assistance and services. Humanitarian access is a principled and negotiated endeavour. Under GA ...