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UN Charter Returns to UNHQ for 80th Anniversary | United Nations
UN Charter Returns to UNHQ for 80th Anniversary | United Nations
For the first time since 2011, the original UN Charter is back on display at United Nations Headquarters in New York, This historic document, signed in 1945, is the foundation of the United Nations...
UN DESA DISD Webinar with Paul Collier on Poor Places in Poor Countries
UN DESA DISD Webinar with Paul Collier on Poor Places in Poor Countries
This webinar was organized by the Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). Every continent has poor or middle-in...
New report highlights 13 global hunger hotspots | United Nations
New report highlights 13 global hunger hotspots | United Nations
The latest Hunger Hotspots 2026 report - jointly issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) - warns that acute food insecurity could deepen across 13 c...
Interactive Dialogue among UN System, States Parties and Stakeholders on CRPD Implementation
Interactive Dialogue among UN System, States Parties and Stakeholders on CRPD Implementation
COSP19 Interactive Dialogue among States Parties, the United Nations system and other stakeholders on Implementation of the Convention between States Parties and the UN System Chaired by H.E Jay...
Roundtable 3: Enhancing Accessible Civic Engagement and Leadership in Public Life
Roundtable 3: Enhancing Accessible Civic Engagement and Leadership in Public Life
COSP19 Matters related to the implementation of the Convention: Roundtable 3: From participation to representation: enhancing accessible civic engagement, leadership and advocacy in political and...
Roundtable 2: Resilient Societies, Care System and Empowering Persons with Disabilities
Roundtable 2: Resilient Societies, Care System and Empowering Persons with Disabilities
COSP19 Matters related to the implementation of the Convention: Roundtable 2. Resilient societies: strengthening care and support systems to ensure the empowerment, autonomy and independence of al...
Rountable 1: Creating a World Free from Exploitation, Violence & Abuse for Persons with Disabilities
Rountable 1: Creating a World Free from Exploitation, Violence & Abuse for Persons with Disabilities
COSP 19 Matters related to the implementation of the Convention: Roundtable 1. Creating a world free from exploitation, violence and abuse for all persons with disabilities Co-Chaired by Ms. Iwon...
Dance for our planet! Alok | Deep Down #NowForClimate
Dance for our planet!   Alok | Deep Down #NowForClimate
As part of World Environment Day 2026, people around the world are joining the #NowForClimate movement through UNEP's Climate Dance Challenge. The "Climate Limbo" invites participants to creativel...
UN Global Dance Challenge for the Environment #NowForClimate
UN Global Dance Challenge for the Environment #NowForClimate
How did the United Nations Environment Programme come up with a global dance challenge, based on the the viral limbo move, to protect the environment? UNEP's Multimedia chief, Miranda Grant, tells ...
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Advancing the inclusion and rights of persons with disabilities: From Convention to commitment
Advancing the inclusion and rights of persons with disabilities: From Convention to commitment
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the landmark treaty that transformed the global understanding of disability, from a charity...
UN DESA DISD Webinar with Mike Savage on Analysing the power of global elites in the 2020s
UN DESA DISD Webinar with Mike Savage on Analysing the power of global elites in the 2020s
This webinar was organized by the Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). This webinar drew on findings from th...
UN DESA DISD Webinar with Ben Ansell on Political Inequality
UN DESA DISD Webinar with Ben Ansell on Political Inequality
This webinar was organized by the Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). The rise of economic inequality in we...
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Innovation featured at the 11th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals