📅 7 Juli 2026
The HLPF opened to assess progress on the 2030 Agenda amid multiple global crises. For developing states, slow progress is tied to debt, unequal finance and structural constraints as well as...
📅 15 Juli 2026
The HLPF concluded after reviewing development goals and proposed actions. Repeated commitments still face an implementation gap where states lack affordable capital, technology transfer and fiscal...
📅 3 Januari 1980
A group of UN members asked the Council to consider the crisis in Afghanistan. The request shows how states outside the superpowers used multilateral procedures to contest interventions and invoke...
📅 25 Maart 2026
The General Assembly adopted A/RES/80/250, spearheaded by Ghana, recognizing trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement as the gravest crime against humanity. The resolution...
📅 25 Maart 2008
The first annual UN observance made the memory of enslaved Africans and the transatlantic trade part of the organization’s public calendar. Commemoration can challenge historical erasure, but...
📅 1 Januari 2015
The UN decade began with a mandate to promote recognition, justice and development for people of African descent. States and civil society used the decade to document historical legacies, challenge...
📅 25 Maart 2026
The General Assembly adopted a declaration recognizing the transatlantic slave trade and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity. Ghana led the initiative; the...
📅 22 September 2020
At the UN General Assembly, Xi Jinping said China would aim to peak carbon emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. The announcement increased pressure on major emitters and...
📅 8 Mei 2009
The UN Human Rights Council reviewed Vietnam’s human-rights record through the new Universal Periodic Review process. Vietnam presented its own report and responded to recommendations from states. The...
📅 29 September 2025
After France, Germany, and the United Kingdom triggered the JCPOA snapback process in August, UN sanctions returned on September 28, according to the E3 and EU. The EU Council adopted its own...
📅 25 Maart 2008
The United Nations first observed the annual International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The date created a recurring platform for memorialization and...
📅 7 September 1956
The supplementary convention addressed debt bondage, serfdom, forced marriage, and child transfer, widening international attention beyond the formal legal status of slavery. Its adoption followed...
📅 24 Oktober 1945
The Charter established the United Nations and affirmed self-determination as a principle, while colonial empires remained in place. Delegates from colonized and newly independent societies pressed...
📅 1 Januari 2015
The UN-declared decade began with a program centered on recognition, justice, and development. For Brazil, it provided an international frame for campaigns on racial inequality, Afro-Brazilian memory,...
📅 25 Maart 2026
The General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/80/250, spearheaded by Ghana, declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement the gravest crime against humanity and...
📅 23 December 2013
General Assembly resolution 68/237 proclaimed 2015–2024 the International Decade under the theme “Recognition, Justice and Development.” It created an international framework for tackling the legacies...
📅 19 Juli 2021
Report A/76/180 by the UN Special Rapporteur on truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence examines transitional justice measures addressing gross violations committed in colonial...
📅 27 Oktober 2023
The UN General Assembly adopted Resolution ES-10/21 by 120 votes to 14, with 45 abstentions. It called for an immediate and sustained humanitarian truce leading to cessation of hostilities, demanded...
📅 12 December 2023
The General Assembly adopted a resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza by 153 votes to 10, with 23 abstentions. It urged all parties to comply with international law,...
📅 19 Juli 2024
In an advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice concluded that Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful and that it must end as rapidly as possible. The...
📅 19 December 2024
The General Assembly adopted a resolution requesting an urgent advisory opinion from the ICJ on Israel’s obligations concerning the presence and activities of the UN, other international organizations...
📅 1 Mei 1974
The General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order. Newly independent states argued that political independence without control over trade,...
📅 13 December 2006
The convention requires participation and accessibility across public life and informs nonprofit governance, program design, and representation.
📅 18 Maart 2015
The framework calls for inclusive, accessible, and people-centered disaster-risk reduction, including participation by people at heightened risk.
📅 25 September 2015
The SDGs call for inclusive institutions and participation, reinforcing nonprofit responsibilities to assess who benefits and who is left out.
📅 25 September 2015
The 2030 Agenda commits to inclusive development and encourages nonprofits to identify excluded groups, disaggregate outcomes responsibly, and design programs with broad participation.
📅 19 December 2018
The compact calls for inclusive, evidence-based migration governance and engagement with migrants and civil society.
