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At Davos, Guterres slams backsliding on climate commitments

·January 22, 2025·2 min read

Mr. Guterres was speaking at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, the exclusive event held high in the Swiss Alps where senior politicians, Heads of State and CEOs of some of the world’s biggest and most influential companies rub shoulders. The UN Secretary-General took aim at the theme...

Recruitment of child soldiers is on the rise, despite global commitments

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·January 2, 2025·1 min read

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was hailed as a historic agreement when it was adopted by world leaders in 1989, and it has inspired governments to pass laws protecting children from violence and exploitation. Around a decade later, a protocol prohibiting the recruitment and use as...

INTERVIEW: Turn the tide on water crisis with game-changing commitments, urge co-hosts of UN conference

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·February 28, 2023·8 min read

Bringing together Governments, institutions, banks, businesses, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), youth, women, indigenous peoples and many other stakeholders from around the world, the UN 2023 Water Conference (22 to 24 March) will seek to find game-changing solutions to the multifaceted global crisis of ‘too much water’, such as storms and floods;...