What is sustainable development?
Sustainable development is crucial for today’s world and involves maintaining growth while also caring for our planet.
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The UN News and Media is a multimedia service provider, which shares in-depth stories about the work of the United Nations.
The news content varies from insightful video interviews to minute-long audios, covering informative international topics daily.
17 goals to transform our world
In 2015, countries around the world adopted the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Learning the importance of toilets
In some parts of the world. it is education about the importance of hygiene that is holding back sanitation.
FAO plants new efforts to protect bananas under disease threat
In a renewed effort to help protect banana crops in Latin America and the Caribbean, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched an emergency project to
Obesity rates soar due to dramatic global diet shift
Soaring obesity rates are a problem, even in countries with endemic hunger.
Reducing disaster risk is a good investment, says Guterres
There is a strong economic case for climate resilience and reducing the risk of disasters, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a message to mark
Alarmingly high number of children malnourished worldwide
Across the globe, at least one-in-three children under-five are malnourished and not developing properly, UNICEF revealed on Tuesday, in its most comprehensive report on children, food
UN, EU and Smurfs team up for global beach clean-up campaign
Marine litter is both a global and a local challenge. Across the world, an estimated eight million tonnes of plastic waste end up in our