Knowledge valorisation puts research results to work for a greener, fairer society
While knowledge itself is good, it’s even better when it’s applied to help solve the big challenges facing our societies. Many components must come...
Taliban’s backtracking on girls’ education, ‘deeply damaging’
Following a U-turn over re-opening girls’ secondary schools in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the UN human rights chief shared her “profound frustration and disappointment” that...
Syrian constitutional reform body seeking breakthrough
The committee tasked with drafting a new Syrian constitution - and thereby setting the country on a fresh trajectory to peace and stability -...
We are sleepwalking to climate catastrophe
The goal to limit future warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, highlighted in the Paris Agreement on climate change, and driven home in last November’s COP26,...
Tigray humanitarian ceasefire agreement
The UN chief on Friday welcomed the declaration of an indefinite humanitarian truce on the part of the Ethiopian Government, and the commitment by forces in...
Fighting child marriage in India, thanks to school and a mobile phone
With the help of an innovative mobile phone service, UN agencies are working with the Government of Rajasthan, India, to combat child marriage.
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A call to protect cultural property in Ukraine and all other zones of conflict
As a charitable non-governmental organization that is dedicated to cultural heritage, Walk of Truth abhors the fresh outbreak of violence in Ukraine following the...
Therapeutic digital gaming and VR to level-up treatment for addiction
Researchers developing treatments for addiction are turning to virtual reality and gaming to help patients overcome their lack of impulse control and decrease the...
UN weather agency to spearhead 5 year early warning plan, boosting climate action
The UN set an ambitious five year deadline on Wednesday for countries to ensure that citizens worldwide are protected by early warning systems against...
‘Sharp rise’ in Nicaraguans fleeing to Costa Rica, strains asylum system
Around three per cent of Costa Rica’s population is now made up of Nicaraguan refugees and asylum seekers, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said...