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This flagship podcast series from UN News takes its name from the words that correspondents at UN Headquarters in New York hear each night, at the end of the working day. We highlight the in...
The post Second World war dream of global peace which brought countries from around the world together at the United Nations continues to re...
2025 marks the 10th anniversary of one of the most significant resolutions on youth and peace ever adopted by the UN Security Council. Resol...
Storytelling has the power to inspire action, and when celebrities and influencers use their platforms for climate advocacy, the impact can...
Space exploration and the use of space technology is becoming an increasingly critical part of the global economy, but how can the world ens...
Wind and solar energy are now the cheapest sources of energy, bringing cleaner air, stronger communities, and new economic opportunities. In...
Too often, coordinated misinformation campaigns are amplified and monetized via digital advertising, hampering efforts to address the climat...
At UN Headquarters in New York, Karla Quintana, head of the Independent Institution on Missing Persons in Syria (IIMP), has warned that time...
Now in its thirteenth year, the war in Syria shows no signs of letting up, and several foreign powers are active in the country, including R...
April 7 marks three decades since the beginning of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. An almost unimaginable slaughter, which sa...
The Haitian economy may be on its knees, but the gangs that control much of the capital Port-au-Prince seem to have little trouble obtaining...
In Kosovo, where tensions remain high between the ethnic Albanian and ethnic Serb communities, the United Nations is leading efforts to prom...
Small Island Developing States are particularly vulnerable to plastic pollution. As well as coping with a tsunami of waste washes up on thei...
Dominica may have found a solution to cover all of its electricity needs, and even sell electricity abroad, without burning fossil fuels: ge...
Caribbean island nations are vulnerable to a host of extreme weather events, from hurricanes to floods and droughts, that are becoming more...
Like many island economies, Dominica experiences high youth unemployment, and recent events, in particular Hurricane Maria and the COVID-19...
This episode of The Lid Is On focuses on cutting edge online technology, and the UN’s role in making sure that it benefits humanity, rather...
There was a wealth of stories to follow at high-level week of the UN General Assembly, from the conference on the Israel-Palestine two-State...
In this episode of The Lid Is On, experts discuss the urgent need to restore the Ocean, which is facing a host of threats that could drive m...
The shipping industry moves 90% of world trade—and produces nearly 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions. In this episode of 'The Lid is On'...
A Thai woman has been talking about how she was tricked into handing over more than $300,000 to a criminal gang that entrapped her in an ela...
In this episode of The Lid Is On, Conor Lennon from UN News speaks to Luz Maria de la Mora, the Director of the International Trade Division...
The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action , a key UN policy document adopted in 1995, has been credited for several major advances for...
Just 35 hours later than advertised, the UN Climate Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan wrapped up, with an agreement to triple the amount of cli...
COP29, this year’s UN Climate Conference, is being called the “climate finance COP”, because delegates are expected to sign off on a beefed-...
The risk of the world’s major powers engaging in conflict is at its highest level since the Cold War, and the possibility of nuclear war bre...
In the Pact for the Future UN Member States pledged to do more to fight the climate crisis, a subject that has dominated several sessions at...
Reforming the Security Council, to make it more representative of today’s world, has been under discussion for decades. The subject made it...
Crippling debt burdens are holding many African countries back: some of them are paying more on repayments than on health, education and inf...
On the first episode of Focus on the Future, our mini-series running throughout High-Level Week of the UN General Assembly, Conor Lennon and...
Since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, the numbers attending High-Level Week at UN Headquarters in New York have steadily ticked upwards, a...
The future of UN peacekeeping and the “new models” it needs to create to remain relevant in the 21st Century are set to be discussed at the...
Workers with the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, have some of the toughest assignments going in the humanitarian field, h...
A Ugandan man, some of whose family and friends were abducted in the East African country, tells the story of his journey from war-torn chil...
The cultivation of sisal plants by some of the most vulnerable communities in southern Madagascar is helping to tackle desertification and a...
Dominica is described as highly disaster-vulnerable: the country is regularly hit by hurricanes and, when the last one swept through in 2017...
The vast majority of small island developing States (SIDS) are heavily dependent on polluting, and expensive, fossil fuels for their energy...
Thailand has been lauded for the progressive legislation it has passed into law which ensures that women and girls have the right to a range...
UN peacekeeping operations are facing more challenging political and security conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa and require the united and co...
The UN chief has a strong message for those who say the absence of some key leaders is a blow to this year’s General Assembly week – rise to...
Countries in Southeast Asia are coming together with the support of the UN to tackle what is being described as “one of the biggest drug-tra...
With the world currently recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and reeling from the economic fallout of the war in Ukraine, progress on ach...
On today’s episode of The Lid Is On, Conor Lennon speaks to three exceptional young changemakers who have been recognized by the UN for the...
The UN Young Leaders for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an inspiring group of young people from across the world, achieving gr...
In the final episode of Humanitarian Leadership Stories, a mini-series produced in collaboration with the UN Humanitarian Office, OCHA,we fi...
For veteran UN Humanitarian Coordinator Imran Riza, holding the line on impartiality is key in emergencies. And he should know, having serve...
In episode four of Humanitarian Leadership Stories, a mini-series produced in collaboration with the UN Humanitarian Office, OCHA, we hear h...
In the third episode of Humanitarian Leadership Stories, our mini-series produced in collaboration with the UN Humanitarian Office, OCHA, Da...
In the second episode of Humanitarian Leadership Stories, our co-production with OCHA, the UN Humanitarian Office, top UN relief officials e...
What makes a good aid chief? That’s the question we set out to answer in Humanitarian Leadership Stories, a mini-series produced in collabor...
Unless drastic changes are made the future of water looks bleak. On World Meteorological Day, held on 23 March, Conor Lennon spoke to Petter...