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A group of people demonstrating in support of victims of enforced disappearance in Mexico during a visit to that country by a delegation of the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED), 15 to 26 November 2021. ONU-DH M茅xico
Juan Pablo Alb谩n Alencastro

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鈥 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.

A crater at the former Soviet Union nuclear test site Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, 2008. CTBTO Preparatory Commission
Robert Floyd

Ending Nuclear Testing to Advance Global 探花精选 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.

White flowers with water droplets. Anthony/Pexels
Gabriela Suhoschi

World Water Week 2022: Revealing the Importance of Unseen Water

This year鈥檚 conference will place particular focus on what can be described as 鈥渋nvisible water鈥濃攇roundwater, 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.

UNICEF Representative in Ukraine Murat Sahin with a child at a reception centre in Zaporizhzhia. 24 May 2022. UNICEF/Kate Klochko
Afshan Khan

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. 

Part of the legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic is a renewed awareness of the importance of human interactions, including in the workplace.  Photo: fauxels/Pexels
Gabriel Elkeiy

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.

Experts at work in the OPCW Laboratory, located in Rijswijk, The Netherlands. The Laboratory will move to the OPCW Centre for Chemistry and Technology in The Hague when it opens in 2023. 31 October 2016. OPCW
Fernando Arias

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.

Children in Namarjung, Western Development Region, Nepal, 2017. Rebecca Zaal/Pexels
Michael Herrmann

The Global Population Will Soon Reach 8 Billion鈥擳hen 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.

Tuna purse seine vessel recovering its net. 漏 TM-Tracking
Duncan Copeland

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.

Research sailing vessel Sea Dragon using a Manta Trawl to collect ocean plastics during an eXXpedition mission to the North Pacific Gyre in 2018. eXXpedition/Jen Russell
Emily Penn

Navigating Our Way Towards a Plastic-Free Ocean

Plastic pollution doesn鈥檛 know political or cultural borders. We all share one planet, and global problems transcend all boundaries, which means the solutions need to as well.

Dr. Asha de Vos, founder and Executive Director of Oceanswell, the Sri Lanka-based marine conservation research and education organization, working at sea with members of her team.
Asha de Vos

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.

Silas Baisch on Unsplash
Peter Thomson

Let鈥檚 Halt the Ocean鈥檚 Decline This Year

There are many solutions that can help restore the ocean鈥檚 health, but they will require action鈥攁ction 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.

Expanding access to affordable transportation via bicycle can empower women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa. World Bicycle Relief
Susan Bornstein

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: St茅phane Jean, 18 May 2022

In the context of the International Day of United Nations 探花精选keepers (29 May 2022), the UN Chronicle talks with Mr. St茅phane Jean, a Judicial Officer and Coordinator in the United Nations Department of 探花精选 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.

Roxana Widmer-Iliescu

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鈥攚ouldn鈥檛 we want to continue accessing all of the benefits of such technology as we get older?

In Tachilek, Myanmar, a throng of students returns home after morning classes at the town鈥檚 Basic Education School, which is forced to operate in shifts due to a shortage of classroom space. 2011, UN Photo/Kibae Park
Daniela Bas

Urbanization and Families

Sustainable urbanization with affordable housing, featured in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11, is foundational to family formation and family life, impacting the health and well-being of family members.