Global Stories
A cantata entitled 鈥淓veryone, Everywhere鈥 weaves passages from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights together with the words of human rights luminaries such as...
YouTuber, novelist and tuberculosis activist and John Green from...
During times of conflict, confusion often reigns and facts can often be misinterpreted without any malice intended; the UN calls this misinformation rather than...
In early September, twelve young journalists arrived in New York City from different parts of the world to cover the 78th session of the UN General Assembly....
What does it take to get food, medicine, emergency education, and shelter to record numbers of people in some of the most dangerous places on Earth?
The United Nations has been working in the Middle East region around the clock to de-escalate the Israeli-Palestinian crisis by engaging key actors and providing...
Haiti is wracked by violence that has escalated to unprecedented levels. In the first eight months of this year, 3,000 homicides were reported; there were also over 1...
On the afternoon of 19 August 2003, the United Nations headquarters in the Canal Hotel in Baghdad was badly damaged by a devastating truck bomb attack.聽
In April 2022, Afghanistan鈥檚 de-facto authorities banned all cultivation of opium poppy under strict new laws.
Yokasta Valle is a five-time World Boxing Champion in both in both the International Boxing Federation and the World Boxing Organization鈥攂ut the fight she is most...
Brazilian activist, Valdecir鈥 Nascimento spent her life fighting for women鈥檚 rights in her country.
Amid the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a UN safe area was established in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1993. But in July 1995, the town was overrun by Bosnian-...
Australian businesswoman and athlete Mina Guli ran 200 marathons across the world in the space of a single year to draw attention to the urgency of our global water...
In November 2022, the world population eclipsed 8 billion people.
Colombia's marine treasures are often overlooked in favor of the colorful towns that dot its mountainous coffee region.
Singer-Songwriter Cody Simpson is a musician and athlete with millions of fans around the world.
San Andr茅s, Colombia, is the biggest island in the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve, containing parts of one of the richest coral reefs in the world.
A tiny island in the Caribbean was decimated by Hurricane Iota in 2020. Although the loss of human life was minimal, the impact on the island鈥檚 precious ecosystems...
Monkeypox is not a new disease, and in some African countries it is endemic.