General History of Africa: UNESCO completes pioneering historical oeuvre and launches new educational resources.
Stories & Blogs UNICEFOct 17, 2025(Press Release )UNESCO announces the completion of the last three volumes of the General History of Africa.
At the World Health Summit, global parliamentarians meet with partners to strengthen political leadership in ending AIDS.
Stories & Blogs UNAIDSOct 13, 2025(Press Release )Parliamentarians from around the world met with policymakers and partners at the World Health Summit in Berlin to foster dialogue on how to mobilize political will, defend equal rights and build inclusive and sustainable responses to HIV.
UNAIDS releases new film about the importance of dialogue between parents and children around safe sex and HIV prevention.
Stories & Blogs UNAIDSOct 11, 2025(Press Release )UNAIDS proudly presents, ‘Ghotul,’ a short film about a conversation between a daughter and her mother about how she met her father and how she navigated dating and relationships when she was younger.
Africa’s Real Safety Net: AU and UNDP Launch a Landmark Report on Community-Based Social Protection October 8, 2025
Stories & Blogs UNDP-AfricaOct 08, 2025(Press Release )The African Union Commission (AUC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have launched a groundbreaking joint report, “From the Ground Up: Community-Based Social Protection in Africa”, at the AU Symposium on Social Protection in Africa, held
Gender equality is the world’s unfinished business – and unfinished potential
Stories & Blogs UN-WomenSep 24, 2025(Press Release )Gender equality remains the unfinished business of our time – and the private sector is indispensable for closing the gap, according to a new report from UN Women launched today.
HeForShe Alliance rallies men and boys to stop online misogyny.
Stories & Blogs UN-WomenSep 23, 2025(Press Release )Online misogyny has reached crisis levels, with women and girls subjected daily to harassment, abuse and discrimination across digital spaces.
World leaders place women’s empowerment and gender equality at the heart of multilateralism as UNGA80 High-level Week opens
Stories & Blogs UN-WomenSep 23, 2025(Press Release )Governments commit to more than 212 actions showing global support for women and girls.
UNAIDS welcomes US announcement to expand access to medicine to prevent HIV and urges greater global ambition to reach all in need.
Stories & Blogs UNAIDSSep 05, 2025(Press Release )UNAIDS welcomes the announcement by the US State Department that the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) will be supporting an initiative by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria to provide lenacapavir to up to 2 million people in
Half the world, only a quarter of the news: Women appear or are heard in just 26 per cent of all broadcast, radio and print clips.
Stories & Blogs UN-WomenSep 04, 2025(Press Release )Thirty years after governments pledged transformative change for women through the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a new global study finds women remain almost invisible in the world’s news.
TICAD9 Concludes in Yokohama with Bold Commitments to Africa’s Leadership in Global Solutions
Stories & Blogs UNDP - AfricaAug 23, 2025(Press Release )“AI must stand for Africa Included.” With this powerful message, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres opened TICAD9