The 2024 edition of The UN Card provides an updated snapshot of 10 key actions by the United Nations, showing in quantifiable terms how the UN’s daily work affects lives worldwide. Verified by the Department of Global Communications, this annual update highlights the UN’s critical impact across various global challenges.
Key actions include:
- Assisting 131 million people fleeing war, famine, and persecution.
- Providing food and aid to over 150 million people in more than 120 countries.
- Supplying vaccines to 45% of the world’s children, saving 3 million lives annually.
- Working with 196 nations to keep global temperature rise well below 2°C.
- Maintaining peace through 71,000 peacekeepers across 11 missions.
- Tackling the global water crisis affecting over 4 billion people.
- Protecting human rights through 80 treaties and declarations.
- Coordinating a $46 billion humanitarian appeal for 180 million people.
- Preventing conflict through diplomacy, assisting 50 countries annually with elections.
- Supporting 11 million women with sexual and reproductive health services each year.
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