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UN Spokesperson Farhan Haq answers common questions about the UN鈥檚 budget, including how the UN gets its money, how it prevents fraud and waste, what is spent on...
Climate talks reached agreement on operationalizing a 鈥榣oss and damage鈥 fund that has the potential to impact not only countries and communities on the frontlines of...
The word 鈥済enocide鈥 was first coined by Polish lawyer Raph盲el Lemkin in 1944 in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. It consists of the Greek prefix genos, meaning...
The UN-brokered Black Sea Initiative agreed by Russia, T眉rkiye, and Ukraine has allowed millions of tons of grain and other foodstuffs to leave Ukraine鈥檚 ports, playing an indispensable role in...
Genocides do not start with bullets or machetes, they begin with hate speech.聽
Can the United Nations stop a war? Can the Security Council stop a war? UN Spokesperson Eri Kaneko answers these questions, and explains the key functions of the...
Words not weapons. That鈥檚 the fundamental idea at the heart of the UN. Humanity can only survive, humanity can only thrive through cooperation, not conflict. And that...
Imagine growing up with your mother telling you to stop playing video games, and then discovering that you have acquired such a useful skill that the United Nations...
Genocides do not start with bullets or machetes, they begin with hate speech.
The global population has reached 8 billion, what does this mean for the future of our world?
Dr. Rachel Snow of the...
Cocaine trafficking is surging worldwide and coca cultivation soared 35 per cent from 2020 to 2021, a record high and the sharpest year-to-year increase since 2016....
If you look at the hard data, UN peacekeeping missions succeed most of the time. They significantly reduce civilian casualties, shorten conflicts, and help make peace...