Who Is Protecting Antarctica’s Environment?
The Antarctic Treaty System, in place since 1961, is principally dedicated to the environmental threats that arise locally, including those from fishing, tourism and scientific research.
Sustainable Stories: Empowering Children to Shape Their Own Future
It's crucial to show young children the possibilities available to them in a positive way, but it’s equally important to ensure that their environment can fully support them.
The Crisis of Global Displacement in a Time of Insecurity
There is a difference between choosing to move and being forced to flee. That difference is essential in learning how to deal with the current wave of global insecurity.
Holocaust Remembrance for Dignity and Human Rights
Today, genocidal and other atrocity violence occurs in all corners of the globe, largely unabated and with near-total impunity. Even in places that do not make headlines, individuals and communities are targeted for identity-based discrimination and violence.
International Solidarity Map for Peace and Human Rights
International solidarity is a principle that recalls the responsibility of States, international organizations, corporations and civil society to strengthen the enjoyment of human rights and peace by everyone through transnational networks of communication.
Moving Away from Illicit Crop Production Contributes to Socioeconomic Development, Peace and Stability
Over the past two decades, UNODC has supported hundreds of thousands of families in finding dignified incomes away from illicit crops.
Ukrainian Classical Music in the Face of War
The ongoing war has an overarching strategic objective, in addition to petty territorial conquest: the destruction of the Ukrainian national identity.
Safeguarding Human Rights and Information Integrity in the Age of Generative AI
Together, we can ensure that generative AI is used appropriately, and that its benefits are achieved without endangering information integrity and human rights.
The United Nations in a World of Rising Global Challenges
The direction of the work of the United Nations in the coming months and years will focus on how our institution can better address peace and security, sustainable development and human rights for all, including future generations.
How Critical Energy Transition Minerals Can Pave the Way for Shared Prosperity
Now is the time to leverage critical energy transition minerals to update the international trade regime, promote structural diversification and turn the tide of commodity dependence once and for all.
Rethinking Universal Basic Income: Economic Productivity, Quality of Life and the Sustainable Development Goals
Even if humanity possesses sufficient specialized knowledge to liberate itself, a gravely and persistently unequal social structure continues to hamper all the world’s countries.
Sunsets, Anger and Activism: On Youth Leadership in Urbania
There is good news: the youth climate justice movement has officially declared that we do not intend to wait until someone invites us to make decisions affecting our own present and future.
A Window of Opportunity in Haiti
Haiti has been beset by numerous challenges over the years, most recently incessant violence and insecurity, but also political instability, underinvestment in basic services and a succession of natural disasters.
The Global Challenges of Defining Genocide: Responses to Renewed Debates
Currently, the global community is experiencing an increase in the propensity of extraordinary crimes. Conflicts are changing and becoming more complex. Protracted crises remain unresolved. The spread of misinformation on social media is causing hate speech and polarization to spike, making it harder for communities to come together to address crises that are unfolding in real time.
A Chronicle Conversation with Paloma Merodio GĂłmezÂ
Leading up to the Seventh High-level Forum on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) in October 2024, the UN Chronicle asked Paloma Merodio GĂłmez, former UN-GGIM Co-Chair and Vice President of the Instituto Nacional de EstadĂstica y GeografĂa of Mexico, about geospatial information as fundamental to sustainable development.