October 2026 - How do we make sure that AI is powered for good and in the service of humanity? One such AI tool – the SDG ...

The September 2026 thematic brief, AI Agents, Misalignment and Loss of Human Control Risks: Evidence from the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident, examines the incident as one of the clearest real-world ...

I welcome today’s decision by the General Assembly to reform financial rules that were putting the Organization’s stability at risk. By its action, the Assembly has agreed to introduce, for a ...

As the world’s only truly universal global organization, the United Nations has become the foremost forum to address issues that transcend national boundaries and cannot be resolved by any one country ...

Rural territories form the first mile of global food systems and underpin national economies. Home to 44 per cent of the world’s population and nearly 80 per cent of the world’s extreme poor, these ...

Adopted at the 2024 Summit of the Future, the Pact for the Future and its annexes – the Global Digital Compact and Declaration on Future Generations – is the most wide-ranging international agreement ...

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Telling the UN story in many languages, powered across platforms. The United Nations is indispensable as a forum for building a better world and solving complex and evolving challenges. It brings ...

Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS, located in the Civil Society Unit, of the Department of Global Communications fosters greater coherence around cross-cutting issues on the UN's agenda by ...

The 2026 theme draws attention to how colour-based discrimination can affect dignity, safety and mental wellbeing. Colour-based discrimination can appear in everyday ways that are often dismissed as ...

The existence of international days predates the establishment of the United Nations, but the UN has embraced them as a powerful advocacy tool. The United Nations observes designated days, weeks, ...

United Nations and decolonization When the United Nations was established in 1945, 750 million people - almost a third of the world's population then - lived in Territories that were ...