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Maher Nasser: The Power of Voice to Inspire Change
On 30 January 2025, I had the opportunity to deliver the keynote opening address for the Eleventh Annual South Asian Media and Cultural Studies Conference at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, under the theme, ¡°Celebrating Voices¡±. Drawing on a career of over three and a half decades in the United Nations, I shared...
Press release: Global Leaders Urge Bold Reform of Global Financial Governance at Club de Madrid¡¯s Annual Policy Dialogue 2025
Democratic former Heads of State and Government, leading experts and international institutions gathered at the United Nations Office in Nairobi this week for Club de Madrid¡¯s Annual Policy Dialogue (APD25), calling for urgent and transformative reforms to global financial governance to ensure financing..
At a high-stakes virtual summit on Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres and Brazilian President Luiz In¨¢cio Lula da Silva brought together 17 national leaders from major economies and climate-vulnerable countries. The goal was to accelerate global climate ambition ahead of COP30, which will be hosted in Brazil.
Billions of people around the world are living in fear of job loss or struggling to find work, as economic instability, conflict, and climate shocks combine to erode global security, a new UN report has warned.
A lack of funding and dwindling supplies are forcing the UN World Food Programme to suspend lifesaving treatment for 650,000 malnourished women and children in Ethiopia by the end of the month. ¡°We are at the breaking point,¡± the agency warned on Tuesday.
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