Earlier this year, Irish climate activist Saoirse Exton joined the UN Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory Group (YAG) on Climate Change, becoming the group’s youngest ever member. Over the next two years, Saoirse and her six fellow advisors will represent youth perspectives on climate change at the UN and will provide Secretary-General António […]

For the first time, Burkina Faso tops the list of the world’s most neglected displacement crises, according to a new report from the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). Redirection of aid and attention towards Ukraine has increased neglect of some of the world’s most vulnerable people. The annual list of neglected displacement crises is based on […]

Since Monday, a key meeting on plastic pollution has been taking place in Paris at the UNESCO headquarters. “This is a once in a planet opportunity,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The meeting follows a historic resolution adopted in March 2022 at the United Nations Environment […]

The Nordic countries are low both in terms of smoking habits and tobacco-related mortality – Sweden is the lowest. Today is No Tobacco Day. This year’s theme is “We need food, not tobacco”. The publication “Smoking Cessation in the Nordic Region” presented the following figures in 2018: The area in the Nordic region with the The post […]

The  Swedish  Freedom  of  the  Press  Ordinance  of  1766 is among 64 documentary collections that have been added to UNESCO´s Memory of the World Register. The document is the  world’s  first  legislation  guaranteeing  free  communication  of  information. Created by UNESCO in 1992, the Memory of the World Programme, now […]