The UN Foundation-Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership just published a report that looks back at the 5 year, $28 million partnership that has explored how mobile technology can advance health, development, and humanitarian goals.
The UN Foundation's board of directors are meeting in Norway this week for a series of meetings focused on how governments, non-profits and the corporate sector can advance goals related to economic development, climate change and women's and children's health.
To coincide with World Refugee Day today, UNHCR released its annual report on the state of the world's refugees. Test your knowledge of global displacement issues with this brief quiz.
What most reports will not tell you is that the current governor of South Kordofan is a man named Ahmad Haroun. Prior to serving as governor, Haroun served as the Minister of State for the Interior, where he was assigned the "Darfur Security Desk."
Strong rhetoric is about the only tool at the disposal of the UN system right now because the Security Council has so far failed to take any action whatsoever on the Syria situation.
Susan Rice delivered remarks yesterday to the annual meeting of the United Nations Association of the United States (which recently entered into partnership with the UN Foundation). In her speech, Ambassador Rice makes the classic case for constructive engagement with the United Nations.