A sustainable and inclusive future depends on achieving inclusive economic growth and decent work for all. Yet young people aged 15 to 24 continue to face persistent barriers to accessing meaningful and productive employment. This session will highlight the bold, innovative ways in which young advocates are leading change to ensure that every young person can access productive employment, regardless of gender, income, or socio‑economic background.
Moderator
Bora Kamwanya, Vice-President, Pan African Youth Union
Speakers
Puneet Singh Singhal, Co-founder of Billion Strong and member of UN Youth Office Reference Group
Lindsey Huahuamullo, Founder of ImpactaYA and member of UN Youth Office Reference Group
The Poet Laureate of Barbados, Ms. Esther Phillips, and Ms. Shahaddah Jack, the first Youth Poet Laureate of Toronto, participated in the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade on 25 March 2026 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. While there, they sat down in a UNTV studio to reflect on the power of poetry and art in confronting history, honoring memory, and demanding justice.
The conversation was organized by the United Nations Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery.
Conversation with Fabien Cousteau, Aquanaut, Ocean Conservationist, and Documentary Filmmaker.
Join ITV News Anchor Rageh Omaar in conversation with Fabien Cousteau, the renowned ocean explorer, environmentalist, and grandson of the legendary explorer Jacques Cousteau—as he takes us beneath the surface of our planet’s most critical ecosystems. Cousteau has spent a lifetime exploring the deep sea, changing our perceptions of life underwater and advocating for its protection. Cousteau will share powerful stories from the frontlines of marine conservation, from the vibrant coral reefs of the tropics to the rapidly changing waters of Antarctica. This discussion will be an eye-opening journey through Earth’s last wild frontiers—and a call to action to protect them.
Speaker:
Fabien Cousteau, Aquanaut, Ocean Conservationist, and Documentary Filmmaker
Moderator:
Rageh Omaar, News Anchor, ITV News
Join us during the UN Ocean Conference from June 9-13 and hear about the transformation and solutions needed to accelerate action on the SDGs.
The Conference aims to drive urgent action to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. Ocean science, pollution, fishing, maritime transport, biodiversity, financing and cooperation are among the issues to be tackled.
Organized by the UN Department of Global Communications, the SDG Media Zone takes the conversation out of the policy sphere and into the public discourse through impactful in-depth interviews and conversations on global issues that matter to people everywhere.
0:13 – How AI innovation drives productivity: #AI has the potential to supercharge productivity and growth around the world, but as Professor Carl-Benedikt Frey of the Oxford Internet Institute argues, technology alone won’t deliver that. The real constraint may be institutional: how markets are structured, how regulation works, and who gets to innovate.
05:41 – 5 facts on quantum reality: John M. Martinis was jointly awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum mechanics. Here, he reveals a little of the weird and wonderful world of #quantum computing – from precise modelling of molecules, to electricity flowing in two directions at once.
08:26 – How the global economy is about to shift: What does growth look like in the current #economy? Where are the challenges and opportunities in the next 5 years? And which industries are likely to drive growth globally? To find out, the World Economic Forum brought together leaders, ministers of economy and finance, and top economists from around the world, as well as surveying more than 11,000 business leaders in more than 100 countries.
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Between October 2023 and December 2025, more than 38,000 women and girls were killed in Gaza, the result of Israeli air bombardment and land military operations, UN Women said on Friday. Women from Gaza share their stories of struggling to survive.
Briefing by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), on Sudan and South Sudan – Security Council, 10139th meeting.
Briefing via VTC from Berlin, the head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Tom Fletcher described his recent visit to South Sudan and said, “I was told again and again of a feeling of despair and abandonment, and with good reason. The world’s youngest nation stands at a dangerous crossroads. Conflict up, displacement up, hunger up, disease up, attacks on aid workers up, funding down. Two out of every three people need humanitarian support this year. Yet the hyper-prioritised $1.46 billion plan is only 22 percent funded.”
In Jonglei, Fletcher said, he met “families uprooted again and again.”
He said, “women told me that they fled extreme violence. Their homes have been burned down. One said people had been slaughtered like goats. I met a grandmother who carried her 19-year-old granddaughter, born paralysed for days as they fled fighting.”
Fletcher said, “this is what it looks like when parties defy their obligations to protect civilians and undermine the revitalised peace agreement.”
According to OCHA, two-thirds of the population need humanitarian support this year, including over 7.5 million people will need food assistance.
Press conference by Fabrizia Falcione, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Representative in Sudan, on the situation in the Country.
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Representative in Sudan, Fabrizia Falcione said women and girls across Sudan continue to experience gender-based violence in their daily live. “They feel unsafe,” she said.
Falcione briefed reporter via video link today (17 Apr) from Khartoum. She said, “women and girls have a persistent sense of danger. 76 percent of the women aged between 25 and 49 have reported feeling unsafe in the displacement camps and sites, but also outside the camps, in markets, water points, in firewood collection areas, roads and streets, particularly at night when going to the latrines in distribution areas, and equally in urban and rural areas.”
The UNFPA official noted that reporting cases of gender-based violence remains “extremely difficult,” due to stigma, the fear of retaliation, the financial constraints, as well as the distance from the service provision.
Falcione also said, “three quarters of them have indicated that economic empowerment and livelihood as being their priority. “
She said, “I can confirm from all my missions that women want to return, including to Khartoum. They want to return to their homes, to their areas of origin. They ask for three things when I spoken to many of them basic services, access to health, access to schools, particularly for their children, and livelihood opportunities. They don’t want to be fed. They want opportunities, income generation of activities, opportunities to be able to feed their families and their children.”
On funding shortage, the UNFPA official said, “today in Sudan, the protection sector is funded at 14 percent and the health sector at 11 percent. We keep hearing over and over that this is a protection crisis, particularly affecting women and girls. It is a health crisis and yet the funding are not following neither the definition nor the needs that are being identified.”
Source: United States Department of Justice (video statements)
Earlier this week, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche received the Law Enforcement Patriot of the Year Award from the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Foundation in recognition of his steadfast support for the Thin Blue Line and the brave men and women who risk their lives to keep our communities safe.
This Department of Justice will always Back the Blue. 🇺🇸
