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Achieving our Common Humanity: Celebrating Global Cooperation through the United Nations portrays landmark accomplishments of the United Nations in supporting peace and security, promoting and protecting human rights, fostering economic and social development, and shaping international law. Amply illustrated with photographs, charts, maps and infographics, and featuring a wealth of information on how the United Nations serves the peoples of the world, this book depicts a wide range of challenges that the Organization has met and successful initiatives that it has conceived and spearheaded as a matter of common purpose among nations in favour of collective human progress. Its rich tapestry of stories explores the diverse ways in which the United Nations fights poverty, combats climate change and protects the environment, undertakes to transform conflicts into peace, helps refugees thrive, supports sharing the benefits of technology, works to stop the spread of infectious diseases and reduce the risk of disasters, and helps render justice for all and ensure the rights of women and children. While recounting decisive innovations at the level of global policy and international agreement, Achieving our Common Humanity also provides a view of how such changes have significantly improved the lives of affected individuals around the world. These remarkable stories show how the United Nations, with its ambitious and evolving vision for the shared prosperity of people and planet, is helping create a better world for everyone.
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- Foreword
- Table of contents
- The United Nations system
- The architecture of building peace
- Helping refugees thrive, not just survive
- On the way to eradicating HIV/AIDS
- The self-determination of all peoples
- Growth in United Nations membership
- On the road to prosperity: Leaving no country behind
- The evolving story of climate change
- ActNow for climate action
- Making every childhood right
- The secretary-general as peacemaker
- Secretaries-general of the United Nations
- Planet future: Goals to live by
- Reducing the risk of disasters
- Dignity first: Fighting racism and intolerance
- Controlling infectious diseases: The Ebola virus
- The United Nations in action
- Ruling the ocean waves for people and planet
- Rendering justice for all
- On the verge of gender equality
- The United Nations keeping the peace
- Growth in United Nations peacekeeping
- Keeping the flame of human rights
- Race to space: Peaceful access for all
- Our sky, ourselves: Restoring the ozone layer
- Atoms for development
- The Sustainable Development Goals