‘No Say Day’: the last day youth voices are represented in parliaments around the world

50% of the world’s population is under 30, compared to just 2.6% of parliamentarians globally. If this ratio were reflected in a year, the views of those under 30 would stop being represented in parliaments around the world after the 9th of January.

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UNFCCC's recipe for change

Earlene Cruz is on a mission to make people hungry for climate action every time they sit down to eat.

Cruz is the Founder and Executive Director of Kitchen Connection Alliance, an entity that seeks to improve systems for growing and distributing food worldwide. She was at COP27 last November to launch the Cookbook in Support of the United Nations, an event facilitated by UN Climate Change.

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The Secretary-General New Year’s Video Message 2021

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has set “building a global coalition for carbon neutrality — net zero emissions — by 2050” as the central ambition of the United Nations in 2021. In his New Year’s video message for 2021, the Secretary-General said that “every government, city, business and individual can play a part” in achieving the goal of carbon neutrality.

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United Nations Day: Exhibition Instead of Fair

On Saturday, October 24, the United Nations will celebrate its 75th anniversary. In recent years, UN Bonn, the German Foreign Office, the City of Bonn and many Bonn NGOs have celebrated the annual United Nations Day on Bonn's market square or on the banks of the Rhine. This will not be possible this year  due to the current COVID-19 pandemic.

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UN Day on 24 October: Bonn Buildings Will Be Lit up in Blue

To mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, the United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC), with the support of UN Under-Secretary-General Fabrizio Hochschild, has launched an initiative in Europe to lit up buildings and monuments in blue.

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Nations United Movie: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times

2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and five years since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals. 

Nations United is a special, first of its kind film, created by the United Nations on its 75th Anniversary and to mark five years since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals. In the midst of a pandemic radically transforming our world, Nations United tells the story of the world as it is, as it was, and as it could be. It focuses on the solutions and action we need to tackle poverty, inequality, injustice and climate change.

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