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UN Special Adviser helps align UN and Africa on sustainable development path
Helping to reshape the UN's approach to better serve the continent and merge the UN-led Sustainable Development Goals with Africa's own 2063 Agenda, are...
Implementing the 2030 Substantial Development Goals in Ukraine
The 2030 Substantial Development Agenda
In the year 2015, the United Nations laid out a comprehensive Universal Development Agenda comprising of 17 Goals and 169...
The United Nations and the Neglected Conflict of Kashmir
The principle of ‘right of self-determination’ and its applicability to the 72-year-old Kashmir conflict needs to be considered during the 75th session of the...
UN anniversary’s gloomy takeaways
On its 75th anniversary and amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations has for the first time convened world leaders mainly in an...
A plea for help and peace, from Colombia’s communities to the UN Security Council
The small plane bobbed through the clouds as my Peruvian colleague and I looked out onto the green mountains of Colombia below. It was...
Kashmir and UN’s Responsibility to Protect
Sovereign states are expected to act as guardians of their citizen’s security, but what happens if states behave as criminals towards their own people,...
France, Germany and the UK note verbale to the UN on the SCS issue
Following the enlistment of Chinese companies under sanctions by the US for involvement in SCS for reclamation of islands, there has been increasing pressure...
Protect lives, mitigate future shocks and recover better
Over the course of 2020 thus far, the coronavirus has taken hundreds of thousands of lives, infected millions of people, and wreaked socio-economic, humanitarian...
The UN reforms are required to make it functional
Today, the world we live in has become more unpredictable, insecure, and exposed to more vulnerability. Geopolitics is changing rapidly, new problems are often...
Nature: Humanity at a crossroads
Despite encouraging progress in several areas, the natural world is suffering badly and getting worse. Eight transformative changes are, therefore, urgently needed to ensure...