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Safe Spaces, Strong Voices: Protecting Women and Youth under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Leyla Sharafi, Nathaly Guzman Figueroa and Virpi Mesiäislehto

Twenty years of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities have proven that the world knows how to write rights on paper. The next two decades will be judged entirely by whether those rights are tangibly felt in daily life.

Carlos García-Soto

The Ocean and the Next Phase of Climate Governance

Accelerating ocean-climate interactions increasingly influence how climate risks propagate across food systems, coastal regions, infrastructure, ecosystems and economies.

A Chronicle Conversation with Gaynel Curry

In additon to addressing longstanding issues, the Second International Decade for People of African Descent (2025-2034) should examine new and emerging concerns of people of African descent, including climate and digital justice, and artificial intelligence, among other matters.

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Clean Energy Is the World’s Most Secure Path Forward

Diabetes across Life Stages: A Growing Global Challenge

The Crisis of Global Displacement in a Time of Insecurity

A Closer Look at Child Labour in Timor-Leste—Challenges and Progress Towards Ending the Practice

Rethinking Universal Basic Income: Economic Productivity, Quality of Life and the Sustainable Development Goals

Indrika Ratwatte

Sustaining Support for Afghanistan Amid Deepening and Intersecting Crises

In Afghanistan, the United Nations has adopted an approach that balances urgent humanitarian interventions with the sustained delivery of basic human needs assistance.

Joyce Cortez

What’s on Your Plate Comes from Policy: Food, Power and Decision-Making

The contemporary food production system is not simply the result of individual preferences; it is also the outcome of policy frameworks, international trade regimes and agricultural subsidies structured by governments and multilateral institutions.

Diene Keita

Technology, Research and Sustainable Development in the Spotlight at the Commission on Population and Development

Technology and research have been key in accelerating sustainable development. Yet technological change has also, in some cases, deepened inequalities and created new divides and challenges.

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Clementine O'Connor

Turning Food Waste Prevention into a Scalable Climate Solution

The 2026 International Day of Zero Waste focuses on food waste, underscoring the scale of the challenge and the global momentum now coalescing behind solutions.

Bernard Duhaime, Safia Southey, Julien-Manuel Després

Dignity Requires Truth

Predating its formal legal codification by decades, the right to truth has consistently been recognized across international lawmaking, court decisions and the lived experience of survivors.

Gay J. McDougall

Progress Towards Dismantling Racial Discrimination Globally: How International Human Rights Law Supports Justice at All Levels

The painful legacy of racism and discrimination has scarred societies globally. Millions have lost their lives or had their dreams diminished or denied because of the false ideology that one life is superior to another.

Eihab Omaish

A Decade of Prevention: Renewing Commitment to Human Rights-Based, Nationally Led Efforts against Violent Extremism

Victims of terrorism must remain at the heart of prevention efforts. Their voices and experiences highlight both the profound human costs of terrorism and the obligations of States to protect those within their jurisdiction.

Chronicle Conversations

A Chronicle Conversation with Klaus Richter

Quantum mechanics has impressively completed our view of the world and made the atomistic cosmos accessible to us.

Youth Issues

The UN Awake at Night Podcast

What does it take to be a United Nations worker in some of the world’s most difficult and dangerous locations?

How are UN humanitarians, human rights advocates, prosecutors, development experts, climate leaders and peacekeepers improving our world? Stationed in all reaches of the world and witness to suffering and atrocities, how are they helping people and coping themselves?

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Legacy Showcase

Vol. XLVI No. 3 & 4 2009

SPECIAL CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE: To protect succeeding generations...

This special double issue focuses on the impact of climate change, and includes essays on the ecology of recycling; financial innovations and carbon markets; biotechnology; global warming; and the true costs of conventional energy.

Vol. XLVII No. 4 2010

The Youth Issue: Young People Speaking their Mind

What do 1.2 billion young people think about a world whose leadership they are about to inherit? To find out, the UN Chronicle invited young persons between twelve and twenty-four years old from around the globe to take over its pages for this special Youth Issue. Read their opinions, concerns and suggestions on nuclear disarmament, on protecting child soldiers, on social media and the digital divide, adolescent marriage and sexuality, rights of indigenous communities, and more. The Youth Issue also features exclusive essays written by the UN Chronicle's Facebook audience on the Millennium Development Goals.

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