United Nations

The 2015 Slow Food Asia Pacific Festival will be held from November 18 to 22 at 2nd Exhibition Hall in KINTEX, Goyang, Gyeonggi Province (South Korea). The event is co-hosted by Slow Food International and […]

UNWTO is deeply shocked by the tragic attacks perpetrated in Paris. On the behalf of the international tourism community, UNWTO expresses its heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of the victims and to the […]

G20 governments including the US and China have failed to deliver on their promise to fight corruption by adopting laws to end the secrecy that makes it easy for the corrupt to hide their identity […]

Mr President, fellow members of this House, “We should, rather, recognize the United Nations for what it is – an admittedly imperfect but indispensable instrument of nations working for a peace evolution towards a more just […]

A defining year for global health The World Health Summit (WHS) 2015 took place in a defining year for global health The world has set an ambitious agenda in relation to poverty, development, climate, and […]

Federal Minister of Health Hermann Gröhe: “The world must be better prepared to deal with future public health crises. And this is our job.” The refugee crisis, diseases like Ebola, the joint effort to combat […]

EcoMobility World Festival in Johannesburg sends strong car-less urban transport message to UN Climate Summit in Paris Johannesburg may be a city built on the profits of gold, but Mpho Parks Tau, Mayor of South […]

Over 4000 cyclists rode through the streets of Johannesburg yesterday as part of the Freedom Ride, one of the mass participation events of the EcoMobility World Festival 2015. Cyclists of all ages attended the Ride […]