The launch of the first ever United Nations Decade of Sustainable Transport (2026–2035) and its widely anticipated Implementation Plan brought together transport leaders from governments, the United ...

Sustainable transport is about cleaner mobility and safer systems; extending markets; shaping access to jobs, schools and health care; and enabling the movement of food and medicines. With transport ...

The Secretary-General is appalled by reports that dozens of children and other civilians have been killed in the latest deadly attacks in South Kordofan. At least three separate drone strikes were ...

Discussions around promoting greater inclusion of people with disabilities in society topped the agenda at the United Nations on Wednesday.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health emergency — but it is far more. It is an economic crisis. A social crisis. And a human crisis that is fast becoming a human rights crisis. In February, I ...

The Secretary-General is deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life caused by severe flooding and landslides across Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. More than 1,000 people have reportedly ...

Our world is becoming increasingly urban. Cities are now home to 45 per cent of the global population of 8.2 billion, according to UN DESA’s World Urbanization Prospects 2025: Summary of Results, ...

The Second World Summit for Social Development which concluded last month in Doha, was designed with inclusion at its core. Ahead of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December, ...

Dag Hammarskjöld Library provides real-time fact-finding assistance through Chat ...

Speeches The United Nations Digital Library provides access to individual speeches contained within meeting records of the Principal organs. Speeches since the mid-1980s or earlier, depending on the ...

This was the Official United Nations World-Wide Web page of the Fourth World Conference on Women, set up by the FWCW Secretariat with the technical support of the United Nations Development Programme ...

Our world confronts numerous challenges, tragedies, inequalities and injustices, many of which are tied to corruption. With 1.9 billion young people in the world, fighting corruption is vital for the ...