“Throughout my life – whether as an activist or at the United Nations – I have learned that people never agree on the past. To rebuild trust, we must start at the present and look to the future” – UN Secretary-General António Guterres addressing #SOTF, 22 Sep '24

Catching up with Felipe Paullier, Assistant Secretary General UN Youth Office. Congratulations on the success of putting the youth agenda at the forefront of the #SummitforFuture #UNGA79

A pleasure to be back at UNFPA offices and renew @WorldScouting and UNFPA’s strong partnership on youth empowerment and gender equality.

Big Six Youth Organisations are EU International Partnerships 🇪🇺 partners in crime when it comes to empowering youth. 💪 Flagships, such as #YouthEmpowermentFund, give young people real tools to make an impact. On 10 October, 🇪🇺 is hosting #GlobalGateway Youth Event. Link in comments 👇👇

After nearly seven and a half incredible years as Secretary General of the @WorldScouting , I have made the decision to conclude my tenure as SG by November 2024. Today I feel confident that the objectives I set when I first joined have been largely fulfilled. Together we have

This week marks a bittersweet moment as I step down from my role as Secretary General of @WorldScouting. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to have served this incredible Movement and to have grown alongside it over the past years. I’m also grateful to share that the next

Taking time to reflect, consolidate, and learn from some of the best minds in the world was exactly how I envisioned spending this short break between jobs—and the experience didn’t disappoint! Wonderful weeks at Harvard Business School focused on leadership and strategy, left me both

#GAZA: People returning north face huge needs. Children need safety, shelter, food, medicines & a definitive ceasefire now - their lives hang in the balance." - Enyonam director Ahmad Alhendawi. Save the Children International has aid on route to partners in northern Gaza. Spokespeople available.

WEST BANK: Nearly half of all Palestinian child killings since records began happened in the past 2 years. “Children in the West Bank are still being killed...The pause in hostilities in Gaza has only seen an increase in violence for them" Ahmad Alhendawi savethechildren.net/news/west-bank…

This vaccination campaign is a crucial step, but it's not enough. Thousands of children have missed out on essential vaccines, are malnourished, and living in dire conditions. Many are struggling with life-threatening injuries and traumatic stress. Every day without proper

For 6 weeks we’ve got life-saving supplies to families and we still have medicine, tents, hygiene kits to go. We need unimpeded access. We cannot take all hope away again from children in #Gaza. They deserve more.

For six weeks we’ve been delivering life-saving supplies to families & we still have medicine, tents and hygiene kits to go. We need Israeli authorities to allow unimpeded access. "We cannot take all hope away again from children in Gaza. They deserve more," Ahmad Alhendawi

A Classroom Frozen in Time, a Future Waiting to be Rebuilt. Standing in this classroom in Syria, where the last lesson was written on the board in November 2012, is a stark reminder of what was lost. Education halted, dreams put on hold, and a generation caught in the

The world must not accept the ‘new normal’ in Palestine. Brilliant insight by my colleague @alasmarmo aje.io/a5nict via Al Jazeera English

GAZA: Dozens of children among the more than 330 reportedly killed by Israeli airstrikes. “This is a death sentence for Gaza's children. They're being bombed in tents & cut off from food. We need international action NOW as this massacre unfolds.” Spokespeople available.

Children & families have barely caught their breath & are now being plunged back into a horrifically familiar world of harm they cannot escape. This cannot be what world powers allow children to return to. #Gaza

The past 72 hours in #Gaza have been a bloodbath, in a war that is no stranger to horror. Children killed in a school, in their tents. The war’s resumption is a death sentence for #Gaza’s children.

“This is a deliberate humanitarian catastrophe. Children are being starved by design, under Israeli authorities' total siege. We have the food, we have the aid – what we don’t have is access." Ahmad Alhendawi Save the Children International re. new #IPC figures in #Gaza savethechildren.net/news/gaza-near…

#GAZA: “Any increase in aid may make the difference between life and death for some children - for now. But children need safe, sustained access - not a drip-feed under bombs. Israel & the international community must do their jobs and let us do ours.” - Ahmed Alhendawi Save the Children MENAEE - منظمة إنقاذ الأطفال

This month, we welcomed Ahmad Alhendawi, Save the Children’s Regional Director, to #Lebanon 🇱🇧 🤝He met with officials, UN partners & local organizations to strengthen collaboration on child rights, social protection & humanitarian response. Together for every #child.