When the pandemic hit Georgia, with forced lockdowns and overwhelmed hospitals, telemedicine had an opportunity to grow remarkably. The UN Resident Coordinator along with UN agencies is leading this transformation from the front, helping invest in critical health infrastructure and building capacity for nurses and doctors in Georgia to reach patients in remote locations.
Despite the immense dangers and obstacles, the UN continues to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid in Gaza. Here is an overview of the humanitarian efforts in the occupied territory.
For Khadija, like many other women in her village in Tanzania, the burden of care work traditionally falls upon their shoulders. UN Women in Tanzania implements programmes that address the disproportionate care burden on women and girls.
Our UN teams are on the ground in 162 countries and territories, coordinating joint programmes and tackling a range of priorities and initiatives — from climate action and food security to gender equality and safety of civilians.
A unique programme led by the ILO is helping traditional craftspeople in the Philippines earn a decent wage and build their skills for sustained economic growth.
Abdlallah, Jamil, Abdul Rasoul and Habib bin Khamis, four brothers, are nakhlawis, a Bahraini local dialect term for date palm farmers. They hail from a farming family and have cultivated palm trees their whole lives. Indeed, the Kingdom of Bahrain has long been known as the “country of million palm trees”.
Malaysia's journey from an agrarian economy with widespread poverty and deprivation at independence in 1957 to one of the world's best-performing upper-middle-income countries has been rapid.
In the grand tapestry of climate change discussions, where policy frameworks and carbon footprints often dominate, there exists a formidable force less talked about that both bears the brunt of climate-induced calamities and holds the key to transformative solutions.
