United Nations

UN Official Urges Action to Limit AI-Powered Weapons

February 14, 2020

In an interview with Politico, Izumi Nakamitsu, the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Disarmament Affairs, expressed hope that agreement could still be reached on key measures contained in the UN’s Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons relating to regulation of lethal autonomous weapons, known as “killer robots.”
WHO Chief Warns of Global Consequences of Coronavirus

February 12, 2020

World Health Organization Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus describes the Coronavirus, now formally named COVID-19, as a very grave global threat that could create significant political, social and economic upheaval.
UNESCO Agency Promoting Global Citizenship Curriculum

February 05, 2020

The UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development has created a Global Citizenship Curriculum designed to "create the empathetic citizens we need in the future to save the world."
UN Suffered "Serious" Hacks of Dozens of Servers

January 29, 2020

According to documents leaked to the New Humanitarian, The United Nations suffered a "serious" hack to its "core infrastructure" that potentially compromised officials and employees and declined to notify the public of the incident.
UNOHCHR Seeks $375.5 million for Programming

January 22, 2020

The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights is appealing for $375.5 million to support its efforts to promote and protect human rights in dozens of countries around the world.
Browne: UN Development System Reform is Long Overdue

January 15, 2020

Writing in PassBlue, Stephen Browne explains the persisting need for the United Nations to reform its development system, where services, training and research are administered by more than 30 separately managed organizations and a similar number of departments, institutes and commissions.
UNESCO Aspires to Regain Prominence in Global Education Arena

January 08, 2020

After years of funding cuts, politicization, and growing competition from other education actors, such as the Global Education Forum, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") is pursuing a new strategy to step up its coordinating role for the global education community.
UN Official Takes Parting Shot at "Populist Authoritarian Nationalists"

January 01, 2020

As he departs his post, Andrew Gilmour, the outgoing United Nations assistant secretary-general for human rights, blames "populist authoritarian nationalists" in North America, South America, Europe and Asia for "a backlash against human rights on every front, especially the rights of women and LGBT communities."
UNGA Adopts Resolution on "Education for Sustainable Development"

December 31, 2019

On December 19, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution Education for Sustainable Development that calls upon the international community to scale up education for sustainable development in order to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
UNGA Condemns Russian Attempts to Legitimize Crimea Annexation

December 23, 2019

On December 18, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning all attempts by the Russian Federation to legitimize its attempted annexation of Crimea, including the automatic imposition of Russian citizenship, illegal election campaigns and change of the demographic structure of the population of Crimea.