The new year begins against a backdrop of unprecedented devastation, division, and instability as 27 regions experience massive violence and political insecurity.
The UN Foundation announced today the new Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment (ASRA), to be led by Ruth Richardson as its inaugural Executive Director.
As conversations around mental health expand, Sia Nowrojee, Stephanie Oula, and Mary Jerome on the UN Foundation’s Girls and Women Strategy team are looking at this crisis through a gender equality lens.
Every January, the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) meets at the UN agency’s headquarters in Switzerland to establish priorities for the year ahead and set the agenda for the World Health Assembly in May, when all 194 UN Member States convene to drive global progress toward better health for everyone, everywhere.
UNGA 78 offered us precious time to reflect, learn, see what others see, and contemplate how we can work together to solve the wicked problems confounding us now and threatening future generations.
2023 was a year of halfway points, turning points, and stalled progress as the world grappled with a series of cascading challenges that pushed millions of people into poverty, hunger, and harm’s way.