The United Nations celebrated the first ever International Year of Youth in 1985. A decade later, the UN General Assembly adopted the World Programme of Action for Youth (WPAY), a set of policies and guidelines for nations to look to in improving the situation ...read more →
9 August marks the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. This annual observance aims to not only promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous populations, but also to recognise indigenous peoples’ achievements and contributions in improving world issues such as human ...read more →
Heatwaves and Climate Change “One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won’t jump out. Instead, it will ...read more →
Global Partnership Senior-Level Meeting A Senior-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation is currently taking place in New York at the 2019 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. The Global Partnership itself was created in 2011 at the Fourth High-Level ...read more →
