septiembre 2024

LIVE: UN Summit of the Future

World leaders are at UN Headquarters in New York this Sunday where in just a few minutes the UN’s Summit of the Future will begin; a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine the multilateral system and steer humanity on a new course to meet existing commitments and solve long-term challenges. Watch the opening session here at UN …

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‘Irrefutable’ need for global regulation of AI: UN experts

The imperative for global regulation of the booming artificial intelligence field, or AI, is “irrefutable”, a new report from a UN expert group said on Thursday, adding that development and use of such a technology “cannot be left to the whims of markets alone”. 

UNAIDS: Rising debt in sub-Saharan Africa costing lives

The report details how this debt crisis is jeopardising progress aimed at ending AIDS in Sub-Saharan African countries, which account for a significant majority of people living with HIV globally – 25.9 million people of the nearly 40 million total.

Summit of the Future: ‘Critical’ opportunity for safer, more sustainable and equitable world

A once-in-a-generation UN summit bringing together countries from around the world marks a critical opportunity for far-reaching agreements on international collaboration for a safer, more sustainable and more equitable world, said UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday as part of a global call to action to support the Summit of the Future, which begins on …

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