The UN Economic and Social Council’s (ECOSOC) 2020 Youth Forum will take on the theme of the UN High-level Political Forum for Sustainable Development (HLPF): ‘Accelerated Action and Transformative Pathways:...Read More

Why Global Citizens Should Care Period poverty is the lack of access to sanitary products, menstrual hygiene education, toilets, handwashing facilities, and waste management. Every day, girls and women around...Read More

Warm winter temperatures and bare slopes led many to doubt that Vancouver could deliver successful Olympic Games. But the city and the Olympic Movement both rose above the difficulties. Athletes...Read More

Juan cut the engine and we drifted across Laguna Fernández, its mirror-flat surface reflecting cotton-wool clouds, the silence broken only by the raucous cry of a crested screamer. Soon, a...Read More

Why Global Citizens Should Care Global Citizen campaigns on the United Nations Global Goals, including goal 4 for education and goal 13 for climate action. Join the movement and take...Read More

Why Global Citizens Should Care Quality education is a human right, and is also one of the UN’s 17 Global Goals that work together to end extreme poverty.  While South...Read More

George Soros has announced that he is creating a new university network to better prepare students for current and future global challenges. Soros is endowing the network with one billion...Read More

From the 2018 March for Our Lives fighting for gun control in the US to the Global Climate Strike in 2019, young people are mobilizing and increasingly influencing today’s most...Read More

After becoming a father to four girls, James Van Der Beek wants to help put an end to period poverty. In an Instagram post, the actor revealed that he will...Read More

Why Global Citizens Should Care Human trafficking and child labour are among the biggest challenges experienced by children in West Africa. Trafficking and child labour — and their eradication —...Read More