30.11.2025
Currently, the United Nations has 11 Peacekeeping operations. Do you know where they are and what are their missions? Find out here.
29.11.2025
It is scientifically predictable that deserts are going to expand and that population is growing. How to feed more people with less arable land? Conquering the desert, for example.
28.11.2025
Bacarena, a Brazilian city situated in Amazon, just got its “certificate as Resilience Hub from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) under the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) initiative” due to its population’s and its mayor’s efforts to face the consequences of climate change. Get to know more about it here.
Also, get to know their school that is setting an example.
27.11.2025
The Indigenous peoples living in the Western region of the Arctic are called Innuit (Eskimo is considered offensive). Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) has three major groups: one in the West, one in the East, and one in the North. Get to know their world better here.
26.11.2025
In the 1960s, Amsterdam’s citizens fought to reduce cars on the streets (because children were being killed) and favour bicycles instead. Now, the city is almost car free and everyone rides bicycles everywhere. Let’s do the same to all other cities in the world, starting today, the World Sustainable Transport Day. Give preference to bicycles and sustainable public transportation, and organize yourselves to press the government or your city’s mayor to make the necessary changes. And if you must use the car, don’t buy an SUV (the most polluting car in the market), buy an EV.
25.11.2025
As it was not enough for men to mistreat and harm women in the physical world, now they also do it digitally. For all the observance days, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is one of the most pressing. Let’s turn things around.
24.11.2025
You probably heard about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but do you really know what they are and how important they are to the world? If you have doubts, learn more about the 17 SDGs and the progresses that have been made to implement them.
23.11.2025
Climate change is a recurring topic on the news, but what is the essential information the “average” citizen should know? Learn here about 30 facts to start understand this complex global issue.
22.11.2025
The United Nations Innovation Technology Accelerator for Cities in Hamburg (UNITAC Hamburg), Germany, applies technology for planning smart cities where people are a priority. Check what they are doing or become a partner.
21.11.2025
The more art stolen goods are known, the better chances for those goods to be recovered. Therefore, UNESCO built the Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, which was launched this month. Check what was stolen and spread the word.
20.11.2025
Western countries have this image of Africa being poor and underdeveloped. Well, reality is changing. The Africa Industrialization Day (November 20) aims to both celebrate and promote what has been done to industrialize Africa and what can be done still. The major advantage is that their creativity can arise from the mistakes made by the current so-called developed countries, especially in what sustainability is concerned. Learn more about it here.
19.11.2025
World Toilet Day seems like a laughing matter… but it is not! Sanitation is hugely important to keep our society clean and healthy. Where there is no toilet, there are diseases and other types of dangers. Fight for the right to everyone have a safe toilet everywhere.
18.11.2025
Do you want to help restore the Planet’s environment? Look here at the possibilities to partner with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and contribute to improve the Earth’s health.
17.11.2025
Looking for solutions to becoming more sustainable? The United Nations Industrial Development Organization has created a platform to help industries with that. Check here the priorities, how to get involved, or simply get inspired by what has been done so far.
16.11.2025
While the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is undergoing research on how climate change impacts snow, the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) raises awareness. The partnership signed last year is strong and was consolidated recently with a scientific field trip to discuss the Glacier Retreat. Check it here.
15.11.2025
Forest Whitaker is an Oscar-winner actor and a champion of peace and reconciliation, especially in conflict zones. In 2012, he founded the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI) to further develop the work he started one year before as UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation. Get to know his foundation here.
14.11.2025
Climate change has emphasized the need for cities to be ready for natural disasters. Therefore, several stakeholders from different fields came together to create the Making Cities Resilient 2030, an initiative aiming to transform cities into becoming more prepared. So far, 1937 cities from 97 different countries have joined. Learn about it here.
13.11.2025
“What if … the United Nations was disbanded next Friday?” This is the question Al Jazeera tries to answer by reaching out to experts. Check what they said here.
12.11.2025
Many of us want to be more environmentally and socially responsible, but we don’t know how. Well, you can start by following “The lazy person’s guide to saving the world”.
As Mahatma Gandhi said: “We but mirror the world. (…) If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.”
11.11.2025
Billions of dollars are spent building and shipping space probes to study planets and other celestial bodies. What are the results? Watch the TV show “Solar System” and find out.
10.11.2025
The COP30 starts today and it will end on 21st November. COP means “Conference of the Parties”, and by “Parties” means the countries that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The COP meetings aim to discuss and decide future world measures about the environment. The Paris Agreement was one of its results.
09.11.2025
The nuclear bomb and the dynamite were results of scientific research. Yet, science is much more at the service of peace than at the service of war. Therefore, the International Week of Science and Peace not only makes sense, but it is also incredibly important.
Also:
Learn the importance of Open Science.
08.11.2025
The UN is outdated, they say. And the answer is UN 2.0: a way to rethink the United Nations in five different perspectives (Behavioural Science; Data; Digital; Foresight; Innovation). Curious? Check what they are doing and how maybe you can contribute.
07.11.2025
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) is responsible for managing the United Nations’ Ocean Decade. The aim is to promote science for the sustainable economic and social development related to the ocean. Check what is happening:
at the IOC
at the Ocean Decade
Also:
Watch the video “GenOcean | for the ocean we need”.
06.11.2025
Reading is a great way to understand the world, especially for children. So, the United Nations created the Sustainable Development Goals Book Club. Each Goal has a reading list, which includes books from different countries in the world. Read more here and sign up for updates.
05.11.2025
Tsunamis are rare, but they are highly destructive. It is cheaper to prepare for it than to deal with the devastation and loss of human lives. That’s why the theme of 2025’s World Tsunami Awareness Day is Be Tsunami Ready: Invest in Tsunami Preparedness.
Also:
Watch the video “We can’t stop tsunamis — but we can prevent disasters | UNDRR”.
Check the world map of the Tsunami Ready Communities.
04.11.2025
World leaders will meet from 4th to 6th November in Qatar for the second World Summit for Social Development. They will discuss poverty eradication, the promotion of full employment and decent work, and social inclusion. Besides the plenary sessions, there will be events, a solution platform, and opportunities for engagement. Check the website to know more.
03.11.2025
Act Now is a United Nations campaign aiming to encourage people to take action in order to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. You can be inspired by the ideas suggested and register your initiatives in the app, sharing them with the world. In addition, you can get to know the 2025 “Heros of Tomorrow”, the winners (and finalists) of the SDG Action Awards.
Also:
Join the Smurfs and act for the Sustainable Development Goals.
02.11.2025
Journalism should be the face of democracy and freedom. If journalists get killed, it means those values are in peril. Especially if the perpetrators are not punished. November 2nd is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. Because journalists should be protected and killers should be brought to justice.
Also:
UNESCO: Observatory of Killed Journalists.
UNESCO: Safety of Journalists – What is being done?
01.11.2025
The Peace Ark is a medical ship (or, better yet, a Healing Ship) that crosses the sea around the world providing medical help for those in need. After 15 years of missions, we get to know how it works and what it has been doing. Watch the report here.
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