Rapid transformations – from artificial intelligence and digital technologies to renewable energy and demographic shifts – ...

Draft programme of “A Planet Fit for the Future”, the special event convened by the President of the General Assembly in the ...

Concept note for “A Planet Fit for the Future”, the President of the General Assembly’s special event ahead of COP31 on ...

Economic, digital and energy transformations are reshaping the world at extraordinary speed. Yet, billions of people remain excluded from the jobs, skills, services, infrastructure and protections ...

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 ...

Achieving gender equality and empowering women is not only the right thing to do but is a critical ingredient in the fight against extreme poverty, hunger and climate change. Women are responsible for ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Trusteeship Council, one of the main organs of the UN, was established to supervise the administration of trust territories as they transitioned from colonies to sovereign nations. The Council ...

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 ...

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