Ending AIDS means controlling the spread of spread of HIV and lessening the impact on people's lives, says the UN agency fighting the epidemic, UNAIDS. It says the number of people on anti-retroviral treatment today has surpassed the amount of new infections each year. In our latest podcast, you'll hear from fervent advocates who are [...]

Vulnerable girls in their early teens are the Sustainable Development Goal, or "SDG generation", whose well-being should be the standard by which we judge the success of the ambitious 2030 Goals. That's according to Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), speaking ahead of World Population Day on Monday. He told Matthew [...]

"Being a cooperative means working together" and can also help the world reach its ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). That's the view of many members of one of the oldest and largest food coops in New York City. More than a billion people are members of coops around the world, providing more than 200 million [...]

An Afghan teenager is using rap music to advocate for an end to child marriage. Sonita Alizadeh, 19, has released a music video called 'Brides for Sale' which highlights the ordeal of young girls forced into marriage by their families. The issue is personal for Sonita as her own mother had attempted to sell her [...]

The proposed union of the United Nations and the International Organization for Migration, (IOM) is a sign that the global community is more aware than ever of the problems confronting migrants. That's the view of Leonard Doyle, spokesperson for IOM, an independent body formed in 1951, whose 165 Member States have decided to join forces [...]

The UN goes to great lengths to promote peace, development and human rights, and now it's teamed up with a soprano who's hitting new heights to do the same. The singer is Lebanese star Tania Kassis, who's singing her new song, Al Ardou Lil Jami3 (which means This Land Is for All), in English and [...]

The fact that thousands of people have fled violence in the Central African Republic should be seen as a "wake-up call" to the global community about rising tensions there, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said Friday. More than 6,000 mainly women, children and elderly have crossed into neighbouring Cameroon and Chad amid fighting between herders [...]

Lebanon is an "important building block" to security in the Middle East, the UN Special Coordinator for the country has said. Sigrid Kaag was in New York this week where she briefed the Security Council. Lebanon, which has a population of around five million people, is hosting more than one million refugees who have fled [...]

One mother from South Sudan has been speaking of her "dream and hope" of a peaceful nation at last, five years on from the country's independence. The world's newest nation has begun the process of recovery from a brutal civil war that killed tens of thousands; has left nearly 5 million without enough food and [...]

As countries prepare for the first ever "progress report" on the Sustainable Development Goals next week, they need to be viewed as a "new social contract between leaders and the people". That's the passionate view of Thomas Gass, UN Assistant Secretary-General in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. He's been speaking ahead of a [...]