The panel finds big digital risks from business exploitation, inadequate regulation and socioeconomic disparity.
An independent U.N. panel co-chaired by Melinda Gates and Jack Ma released a report on Monday urging the world to make digital technology safer and more inclusive.
The report, entitled "The Age of Digital Interdependence,” concludes that humanity faces big risks at the dawn of the digital age from business exploitation, inadequate regulation and socioeconomic disparity.
The pact, approved by consensus, outlines 56 broad actions, including an explicit call to phase out fossil fuels.
U.N. leaders urged nations to bring the Sustainable Development Goals 'back to life' and chart a post-2030 agenda.
A proposed 2% minimum tax on billionaires will be taken up at Brazil's G-20 Leaders' Summit in November.
The effects of climate change hit hard from the bombed streets of Gaza to the glitzy venues of the Paris Olympics.
The U.N. weather agency calls for urgent action to protect water supplies, the ‘canary in the coalmine of climate change.'
The U.N. high commissioner for refugees cites 'many instances of violations of international humanitarian law.'
The E.U.'s top court sided with a transgender man who sued Romania for refusing to accept his gender changes in the U.K.
The five-year partnership aims to help ski federations, venues and race organizers better manage natural and artificial snow.
