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 ...

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

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 General Debate of the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly took place during High-level Week, from 22 to 28 September 2026, at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Held under ...

23 September 2026 — The Security Council has been briefed by some of the world's top AI executives on the huge benefits and huge risks the frontier technology presents. With warnings mounting that the ...

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 ...

September 2026 - Richard Gowan, Director of UN and Multilateral Diplomacy at the International Crisis Group in New York, has spent years studying the organization – its highs and lows. Ahead of the ...

10 September 2026 – The Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) has published a new Trends Report on “Beyond Messaging: Terrorist Propaganda as Operational Infrastructure." The CTED ...

The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to urge governments, schools, and tech companies worldwide to stop using maps that make Africa look much smaller than it really is. By 164 votes to one ...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Edward (Ted) Chaiban of Lebanon as Deputy Executive Director, Programme of the United Nations Children’s Fund ...

The Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI: Evidence-based assessment of opportunities, risks and impacts of AI is a first-of-its-kind independent scientific ...