A UN Resident Coordinator blog — Global Issues

A UN Resident Coordinator blog — Global Issues

Leading efforts by 25 UN entities and several partners for the last four years, she has been reflecting on efforts to achieve national sustainable development priorities that tap into Mozambique’s immense resources and potential. “Mozambique and the Mozambican people are wonderful. The potential for sustainable development is enormous, considering its…

UN chief says regulation needed for AI to ‘benefit everyone’ — Global Issues

UN chief says regulation needed for AI to ‘benefit everyone’ — Global Issues

He stressed that AI must benefit everyone, including the third of humanity who are still offline, and insisted on the need to urgently find consensus on what the guiding norms for AI deployment should be. The UN chief was speaking at the “AI for Good” summit organized in Geneva by…

Meet the robots who are making the world a better place — Global Issues

Meet the robots who are making the world a better place — Global Issues

As artificial intelligence (AI) sprouts new, powerful learning abilities, nations are working on strategies to govern it, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which is hosting the two-day summit to showcase a bevy of new technologies, including a range of robots who can handle everything from healthcare to rock…

Boost global action and ambition to reach SDGs, urges new UN campaign — Global Issues

Boost global action and ambition to reach SDGs, urges new UN campaign — Global Issues

Ahead of the critical SDG Summit in September, the campaign will amplify an urgent call for ambitious new action, showcase the Goals as the blueprint for sustainable progress globally, and mobilize people everywhere around this shared agenda for our common future. Crisis multiplier Halfway towards the 2030 deadline, the promise…

Activating ‘citizen mode’ to support democracy from the ground up — Global Issues

Activating ‘citizen mode’ to support democracy from the ground up — Global Issues

People around the world should be able to play a more significant role in decision and policy-making processes that impact them and their communities in order to uphold democracy; that’s according to participants in a discussion at the UN focusing on strengthening democratic governance. In recent years, the UN has…

Financial system must evolve in ‘giant leap towards global justice’: Guterres — Global Issues

Financial system must evolve in ‘giant leap towards global justice’: Guterres — Global Issues

Speaking at the Paris Finance Summit, Mr. Guterres said many African States were spending more on debt repayments than on desperately needed healthcare, and that over 50 countries were either in default or “dangerously” close to it. The UN chief called for a debt relief mechanism that supports payment suspensions,…

In a dangerous and divided world, yoga yields ‘precious’ benefits — Global Issues

In a dangerous and divided world, yoga yields ‘precious’ benefits — Global Issues

This year’s observance organized by the Permanent Mission of India to the UN in collaboration with the Secretariat, took place under the theme, Yoga for Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam (“the world is one family”). In his video message for the event, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres reminded everyone that in a dangerous…

Countering ‘dark age of intolerance’ starts by tackling hate speech — Global Issues

Countering ‘dark age of intolerance’ starts by tackling hate speech — Global Issues

Social media’s role in crushing hate speech From COVID-19 to climate change, hateful exchanges among those with opposing views is a growing concern, said Latifa Akharbach, president of the High Authority of Audiovisual Communication (HACA) in Morocco. The international community’s “failure” in managing and regulating migration “fuels the sponsors of…