The Latest Breaking News from António Guterres

U.N. unveils global principles to combat online hate speech and misinformation, urging tech companies, advertisers, and media to act responsibly.

The United Nations chief has launched global principles to combat online hate and lies and demanded that big tech companies use their power to reduce the harm they are doing to people and societies around the world

In a recent speech, UN secretary-general António Guterres called upon “every country to ban advertising from fossil fuel companies”. He urged the professional services and creative industries to “stop taking on new fossil fuel clients, from today, and set out plans to drop your existing ones”.

More ‘grave violations’ committed in occupied territories and Israel than anywhere else in world, report says

Adding Israel to the report this month is expected to intensify global attention on the country's actions during the conflict in Gaza.

Inclusion comes after eight months of the country’s bombing of Gaza which has killed 13,000 children and a day after Israel bombed a UN school

UN secretary general makes plea for nuclear states to agree on mutual pledge not to be first to use nuclear weapons

The Guardian contacted 11 major organizations that run fossil-fuel ads after Wednesday’s speech by António Guterres

Can we imagine a world without fossil fuel advertising, let alone fossil fuels themselves? That was essentially the question posed by United Nations Secretary General António Guterres this week.