Building Urban Development Strategies for a Sustainable Future
Today, we see a great opportunity in the World Urban Forum to refocus priorities and exchange knowledge about innovative practices to advance the sustainable development of cities, not just locally but around the world.
Connecting Innovation and Culture for Cities of Opportunity
Ultimately, the Tenth Session of the World Urban Forum will be an important milestone event in the lead-up to 2030. We intend to establish as its most lasting legacy the opportunity to transform advocates into participants and policy into practice.
Championing Education for People, Prosperity, Planet and ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵapp
Leaving no one behind is not a numbers game, but one that calls for re-evaluating and reimagining what education means and provides. This year’s International Day celebrates precisely how learning can empower people, foster peace, build shared prosperity and protect a fragile planet.
Chronicle Conversation with Inge Auerbacher, 14 January 2020
Inge Auerbacher recounts her experience as a Holocaust survivor, and describes her lifelong mission to educate people about the dangers of intolerance and the importance of love.
In the Darkness of War, Learning Gives Us Light
Education is the key to peace and prosperity, and the foundation of equality. Lack of education in many regions of the world is one of today’s greatest travesties and a major contributor to conflict, inequity and poverty.
Solar for Health: Five Ways Solar Power Can Make Universal Healthcare a Reality
As the race for universal energy access picks up pace, here are five ways renewable energy can help protect quality healthcare for the world’s poorest.
Seeking Justice and Dignity for Survivors
Impunity is complacency, and words without action inflict the same harm and suffering as the perpetrators of mass atrocities and sexual violence. All people are equal and entitled to the same human rights, and we must challenge the notion that certain groups matter more than others.
The Global 16 Days Campaign: Taking on a Life of Its Own
The Global 16 Days Campaign is underpinned by feminist values, human rights principles and the belief that a world without violence is possible.
HIV Epidemic Control in Central Asia Still Has a Long Way to Go
To achieve HIV epidemic control, countries in Central Asia will need to address fundamental factors that drive HIV transmission and impede the engagement of people living with HIV and key populations in effective prevention and treatment programmes.
A Staff Member’s Reflections on ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵappkeeping Deployment
Many prospective staff members envision serving at some point in their career in regions beset by the effects of war, injustice, poor governance and poverty, with the hope of easing the plight of the people most in need on the ground.
Ending Violence against Women and Girls: Progress and Remaining Challenges
Women’s rights movements, and the implementation and evolution of the international women's human rights framework, resulted in an increased understanding that violence against women is gender-based, a form of discrimination and a violation of human rights.
Chronicle Conversation: Jean-Claude Guédon, 18 November 2019
The UN Chronicle discusses the future of scholarly communication and the 2030 Agenda with Jean-Claude Guédon, Professor of Comparative Literature (retired), University of Montréal, a leading proponent of open science.
Leaving No One Behind: A Chronicle Conversation with Gopinathan Achamkulangare, 30 October 2019
Persons with disabilities should have a representative voice, chosen by persons with disabilities themselves, in every platform that has an impact on their interests, for they are best positioned to identify their own needs and the most suitable policies for meeting those needs.
Chronicle Conversation with Vasily Alekseyevich Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, 29 October 2019
Vasily Alekseyevich Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, talks with Lyubov Ginzburg of the UN Chronicle about the legacy of Russian politician, diplomat and scholar Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov, whose collected works were donated to the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.
Is Kindness the Secret to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals?
A call to action for global youth to increase and celebrate their acts of kindness is a powerful counterstroke to the daily dose of negative news and information we receive through our media platforms.