"Everyone here is working towards the same goal: The safety of U.N. General Assembly attendees and also the people in the neighborhood here," Donlon told reporters outside the First Avenue UN Visitors Entrance last week. "That's important. And also, the pedestrians that we see walking throu...
The summit was held on the sidelines of this year's UN General Assembly high-level week. Some 70 percent of 10-year-olds in poor countries cannot read a basic text. Even in developed countries, education systems often entrench rather than reduce inequality, reproducing it across generations. T...
During the High-level Week of the 79th UN General Assembly in New York, climate change has once again become a central global concern. As the climate crisis intensifies, particularly with the rise in extreme weather events, countries around the world, especially developing nations, are facing un...
Humanitarian response, peace and security and countering terrorism and violent extremism will be top priorities for the United States as delegates join those of 193 nations during the high-level week of the 71st session of the U...
During the High-level Week of the 79th UN General Assembly in New York, climate change has once again become a central global concern. As the climate crisis intensifies, particularly with the rise in extreme weather events, countries around the world, especially developing nations, are facing un...
Next week’s high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly is bringing more than 140 world leaders to New York City, including the leaders of Israel, the Palestinians and Ukraine.
This year, world leaders are unable to travel to New York for the high-level week due to COVID-19. Instead, their pre-recorded statements were played in the General Assembly Hall, which can hold some 2,500 people. Yet only about 200 delegates are allowed to be physically present....
General Assembly president and the UN secretary-general make live speeches at this year's General Debate, while other world leaders deliver theirs via pre-recorded video statements instead of coming to New York in person, during the high-level week at the beginning of the new General Assembly ...
This initiative, first announced at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, is poised to present its initial recommendations before the high-level UN General Assembly Week in September. COP28 stands for the 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Cl...
The Transforming Education Summit is convened by Guterres on the sidelines of this year's UN General Assembly high-level week to gaulvinize global action for education. Monday's leaders' meeting was preceded by Friday's mobilization day and Saturday's solutions day meetings.■ ...