The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced the latest inscriptions to its Memory of the World Register on Thursday. Submitted by 72 countries […]
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World Court begins hearing Sudan’s case accusing United Arab Emirates of ‘complicity in genocide’
The hearings in The Hague, focus on Sudan’s request for the court – the UN’s principal judicial organ – to impose provisional measures to prevent […]
UN rolls out key initiative to combat antisemitism
The action plan, spearheaded by the UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, was launched […]
From bombs to beauty: ‘Every piece tells a story’
“The purpose was to transform the negative energy of destruction into the positive energy of creation,” said Ukrainian designer Stanislav Drokin, who turns shrapnel into […]
Pact for the Future: Countries urged to translate pledges into action
General Assembly President Philémon Yang convened the informal interactive dialogue on the implementation of the Pact for the Future, which covers five areas: sustainable development, […]
Crimes of the transatlantic slave trade ‘unacknowledged, unspoken and unaddressed’
Addressing the General Assembly, Secretary-General António Guterres warned that systemic racism, economic exclusion and racial violence continue to deny people of African descent the opportunity […]
Guterres urges governments to free detained UN personnel and ensure their safety
Locally recruited UN staff are especially at risk of detention. Last year alone, 101 UN personnel were arrested or detained worldwide. The UN has a […]
‘Racism requires ignorance’: How art and culture can help end racial discrimination
“Ignorance allows for racism, but racism requires ignorance. It requires that we don’t know the facts,” says Sarah Lewis, Associate Professor of African and African […]
Mind your language: The battle for linguistic diversity in AI
With his signature geeky glasses and TED-Talk-style headset, Sundar Pichai looked straight out of a Silicon Valley incubator. That Monday, February 10, Google’s chief executive […]
Trailblazers: UN’s ‘founding mothers’ remind all people to stand up for human rights
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home,” said Anna Fierst, quoting her great-grandmother Eleanor Roosevelt’s speech of 1958, […]
