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World Food Day: how close is United Nations to achieving #ZeroHunger?

Today is World Food Day. However, it isn’t about stuffing your face and filling your belly. It’s about promoting awareness…

UN General Assembly 2017: Here’s what to expect

The 193-member United Nations (UN) will gather in New York this week for the annual General Assembly meeting of diplomats and world leaders.…

Social Good Summit: an event that pushes for progress during United Nations General Assembly week

The United Nations set some lofty goals back in 2015. They hope to eradicate poverty, disease and inequality by 2030,…

What is World Humanitarian Day, a UN tribute to those that risk their lives for others?

It takes a special kind of person to dedicate their life to helping others. Aid workers frequently risk their lives…

Refugee crisis: more people forcibly displaced worldwide than the population of the UK, says the UN

Around 65.6m people were forcibly displaced worldwide at the end of 2016, either as refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced,…

Trump has withdrawn the US from the Paris Agreement — what does this mean?

US president Donald Trump has pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, the agreement that almost every country…

Tensions run high as Trump summons entire Senate for North Korea briefing

US president Donald Trump summoned the entire Senate to attend a White House meeting tomorrow to discuss the growing danger…

UN nuclear weapons talks: Will we ever have a world without nukes?

Negotiations began this week at the United Nations (UN) to discuss a treaty to outlaw nuclear weapons. The aim of…

UN reacts to North Korea missile launch; Trump and Trudeau to meet; All eyes on the latest Opec report

These three things will change the world today. UN to hold urgent meeting after North Korea missile launch The UN…