Let’s Recommit to Protecting Students, Educators and Schools from Attack
Education is fundamental, even during war. Access to learning can give children and young people the knowledge and abilities needed to contribute to their communities and economies—and the skills to resolve disputes and rebuild after conflict.
The Other Victims of Enforced Disappearance
Aside from the legal debate on the concept of the victim in an enforced disappearance and the lack of political will in many situations to fulfil victims’ rights, it is indisputable that the next of kin of the disappeared suffer as much and sometimes more than those who are no longer present.
Ending Nuclear Testing to Advance Global Peace and Security
While the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty has already helped advance the nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament agenda, we must remain vigilant. The proliferation of nuclear weapons and the threat of their use continue to pose unacceptable risks to humanity.
World Water Week 2022: Revealing the Importance of Unseen Water
This year’s conference will place particular focus on what can be described as “invisible water”—groundwater, soil moisture and atmospheric water. These occurrences of water are often forgotten, even by experts in the water community, and their potential is therefore not fully explored.
To Continue Delivering for the Children of Ukraine, We Must Look to Partnerships
This World Humanitarian Day, aid workers in Ukraine and around the world are facing challenges on a level never seen before, with key issues being access to those in need.
Future-Proof Skills Can Help Balance Individual and Societal Progress
Conceptual and strategic thinking, creativity, problem-solving, empathy, optimism, ethics, emotional intelligence and judgment are the future-proof skills and attributes that machines will not be able to replicate with the same standards and agility as qualified human beings.
All Stakeholders Have a Role to Play in Ridding the World of Chemical Weapons
The process of destroying chemical arsenals declared to OPCW will soon be completed. However, current global events have underscored that preventing the re-emergence of chemical weapons is on an agenda that will remain open forever.
The Global Population Will Soon Reach 8 Billion—Then What?
Meeting the needs and lifting the living standards of a large and growing world population will require higher levels of production and result in greater consumption. Without green reforms in energy, manufacturing and transport, as well as changes in human behaviour, this will place mounting pressures on the natural environment.
Collaboration and Capacity-Building to End Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
With fish stocks and marine ecosystems under ever-increasing pressure from human activity, clamping down on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing has never been more important.
Navigating Our Way Towards a Plastic-Free Ocean
Plastic pollution doesn’t know political or cultural borders. We all share one planet, and global problems transcend all boundaries, which means the solutions need to as well.
Equity in Marine Conservation: How Local Efforts and Global Partnerships Together Can #SaveOurOcean
While significant efforts and investments are focused on increasing the scale and improving the effectiveness of marine conservation globally, less effort has been put into operationalizing social equity in and through the pursuit of marine conservation. Without equity, there can be no success.
Let’s Halt the Ocean’s Decline This Year
There are many solutions that can help restore the ocean’s health, but they will require action—action from world leaders as well as everyday citizens from all parts of society. Our planet cannot be healthy without a healthy ocean, and the ocean is increasingly unwell.
Bicycles Are Accelerating African Women on the Pathway Out of Poverty
A number of convergent trends have brought renewed interest in the potential of the bicycle to empower women and girls, reduce poverty and improve health in sub-Saharan Africa.
Chronicle Conversation: Stéphane Jean, 18 May 2022
In the context of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers (29 May 2022), the UN Chronicle talks with Mr. Stéphane Jean, a Judicial Officer and Coordinator in the United Nations Department of Peace Operations, about his work and the Organization's renewed efforts to bring to justice perpetrators of crimes committed against peacekeepers, including the crime of murder.
Digital Technologies Can Help Older Persons Maintain Healthy, Productive Lives
Work, education, leisure, socializing and so many other activities take place in the digital space—wouldn’t we want to continue accessing all of the benefits of such technology as we get older?