The UN Digital Cooperation Portal will help close digital divides, foster collaboration and harness technology for the benefit of everyone, everywhere.Default image copyright and description© Shutterstock/Gorodenkoff | An engineer interacts with a virtual reality device.The UN Digital Cooperation Portal goes live on 4 December, giving fresh...
ITC News(Geneva) – The International Trade Centre (ITC) and the Commonwealth Secretariat today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to extend a long-standing partnership, setting out a three-year programme of work to support sustainable, inclusive and digitally enabled trade across the Commonwealth, an association of 56 countries over five con...
MANILA, PHILIPPINES, December 4, 2025 — World Bank Group President Ajay Banga and Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masato Kanda today announced the first two Pacific projects to be delivered under the Full Mutual Reliance Framework, an innovative cofinancing model that will boost development impact.The framework will allow countries to work wit...
UNESCO welcomes 72 new cities from 46 countries to the Global Network of Learning Cities, recognizing their outstanding commitment to making the right to education across all ages a reality for all at the local level.© Chihuahua City4 December 2025Last update:5 December 2025Education transcends the classroom – it is a collective endeavour, and cities pla...
At the Global Policy Dialogue in Bangkok, UNDP and the Korean National Police Agency recommitted to global action to stop technology-facilitated gender-based violence.UNDPBangkok, 27-28 November 2025 – As technology reshapes our lives at unprecedented speed, its misuse is fueling a surge of digital violence, especially against women and marginalized ...
At the opening of the Trade in Services for Development (TS4D) Conference on 3-4 December, the WTO and World Bank highlighted progress in the initiative's efforts to help developing economies leverage services trade for growth and development. Emphasizing the importance of services trade for the future of trade, Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala sai...
UNESCO welcomes 72 new cities from 46 countries to the Global Network of Learning Cities, recognizing their outstanding commitment to making the right to education across all ages a reality for all at the local level.© Chihuahua City4 December 2025Last update:5 December 2025Education transcends the classroom – it is a collective endeavour, and cities pla...
UNCTAD Deputy Secretary-General outlined a strategy for partnerships that help developing countries expand domestic refining and processing and better connect mining to other economic sectors.Default image copyright and description© Shutterstock/ Evgeny_VUN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Deputy Secretary-General Pedro Manuel Moreno called for a new genera...
World Bank Was Largest Provider of Net New Financing to 78 Most Vulnerable Countries WASHINGTON, December 3, 2025—Developing countries paid out $741 billion more in principal and interest on their external debt than they received in new financing between 2022 and 2024—the largest gap in at least 50 years, according to the World Bank’s latest I...
Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, delivered opening remarks via video message at the 8th ASEAN Heritage Parks Conference (AHP-8) held in Ha Long City, Viet Nam. In his remarks, SG Dr. Kao commended the ASEAN Member States and the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity for their efforts to strengthen and expand the AHP as one of ASEAN’s flagship initia...
