SI UN Representative, Frances Zainoeddin provides a candid review of the 2020 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.
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SI's Advisor to Advocacy, Linda Witong, introduces the World Health Organisation's Manifesto for a Healthy and Green COVID-19 Recovery.
Evelyne Para, SI UN Representative in Paris, blogs about the “Skills Academy” created by partners to UNESCO.
SI Advisor to Advocacy, Pat Black questions if COVID -19 has quashed the world's chances of achieving Sustainable Development Goal 1: 'End Poverty in All it Forms Everywhere' (SDG 1) by 2030?
26 June 1945, is recognised as one of the most significant dates in modern history. Following months of negotiations, representatives from 50 countries signed the Charter of the United Nations.
As part of the preparations for UNEA-5, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the UNEA Presidency, and partners from Major Groups and Stakeholders (MGS) organised The Act #For Nature Forum on the Sunday 7-12 June 2020.
SI Representative to UNESCO, Marie-Christine, and guest blogger Martine Levy, WAGGGS Representative to UNESCO, demonstrate the power of partnership for women and girls.
Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, invited Non-Governmental Organisations to join her for the virtual launch from Geneva of the UN Human Rights Report 2019 at the beginning of June.
SI UN Representative to the FAO, Liliana Mosca, reports on the impact of COVID-19 on food security across Africa.
Food is intrinsic for survival and is a fundamental human right. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 posits that by 2030, it is aimed that hunger and malnutrition will be eradicated. But with the COVID-19 pandemic, this goal may never materialise. While the world is focused on the arrival of a vaccine; governments anxiously wanting to open up their economies; and the ordinary person wishing for their lives to return to what it was before the emergence of the pandemic; a more pressing concern is the growing numbers of individuals, families and communities that will go hungry. I
As the first in our series of blogs relating to the twelve critical areas of concern outlined in the Beijing Platform for Action, Janet Hall Schempf, Environmental Impact Analyst, Habitat Biologist, and SIA Member, examines the impact of environmental changes on progress towards gender equality in the world today.
SI Advocacy Advisor, Pat black reports from the UN High-Level Virtual Panel Meeting, 'Accelerating Implementation of the 2030 Agenda through Water, Sanitation and Climate Action'.
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