Yearbook News
Now available! Yearbook of the United Nations, 2015
The online edition of the sixty-ninth volume of the Yearbook of the United Nations, covering the Organization鈥檚 global activities in 2015, is now available on the Yearbook website. The 2015 edition of the Yearbook, as Secretary-General Ant贸nio Guterres states in the Foreword to the volume, recounts the pivotal year in which the global community reached agreement on a number of crucial road maps for the future鈥攊ncluding the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Fostering international understanding
Since 2014, students in the Master of Translation and Interpreting programme in the School of Foreign Languages at have been translating the Yearbook Express from English to Chinese. More
Now available! Building the future: Stepping stones in United Nations history
The United Nations presence at Expo 2020 Dubai engages visitors in聽stories of multilateralism at work through the decades from the 1940s to the present day. More
Journalists and diplomats reap benefits from Yearbook workshops
In October 2021, seventeen journalists of the Reham Al-Farra Journalism Fellowship (RAF) took part in the annual 鈥淯sing the Yearbook online鈥 training workshop conducted by editors of the Yearbook, the authoritative reference on the Organization鈥檚 activities and concerns.
Yearbook online migrates to new UN website platform
The Yearbook of the United Nations website has a new look! In line with a UN Office of Information and Communications Technology/Department of Global Communications project to upgrade UN websites by April 2022, the Yearbook online collection has been migrated to the new UN website platform.
Eliminating racism: time for change
The death of George Floyd in May 2020 galvanized people worldwide to protest racism and discrimination and prompted global discussions on racial justice, including at the United Nations, which has advocated for human rights and racial equality since its inception.
UN and Guatemala peace process
On this day in 1996, after three years of United Nations-moderated peace talks between the Guatemalan Government and representatives from the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca, the parties the , ending decades of civil conflict that took the lives of over 200,000 Guatemalans.
The fight against influenza
Long before the coronavirus () arrived, the United Nations created a system to defend against the recurrence of an influenza pandemic like the 1918 flu that killed over 40 million people. In 1947, the Interim Commission of the (WHO) the Global Influenza Programme () and in 1948, the was established to monitor, analyze and desiminate health data on any epidemics.
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Support women and girls in science!
Science and technology are often considered to be the forte of men. is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11 February), which presents an opportunity to dispel myths, celebrate women who made crucial discoveries and inventions in the world of science, such as physicist Marie Curie, primatologist and marine biologist Rachel Carson
UNEP issues greenhouse gas emissions report
The (2-13 December 2019) in Madrid started today, less than a week after the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) issued its annual .
30th anniversary of children's rights convention
2019 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the General Assembly鈥檚 adoption of the , which has become the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history and has helped transform children鈥檚 lives around the world.
鈥淏reathe with me鈥 exhibit at UN and Central Park
鈥淏reathe with Me", a , conceived and executed by Jeppe Hein with ART 2030, invites people to paint their individual breath onto large canvases in the shape of vertical blue lines, one for every exhale, raising awareness that the air we breathe is part of our connected world and climate.
One week: 5 summits, 17 Goals
The outcomes of five high-level events taking place at UN Headquarters in New York this week: the Climate Action Summit (23 September); the High-level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (23 September); the (24-25 September); the (26 September); and the (27 September) are expected to galvanize a decade of ambitious action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
Celebrate literacy and multilingualism!
(8 September), proclaimed by UNESCO in 1966 and endorsed by Economic and Social Council in 1967, aimed to remind the international community of the importance of literacy for individuals, communities and societies. Since then, the concept of literacy has .