Nudhara Yusuf

London

Executive Coordinator and Writer at SDG Knowledge Hub (IISD)

@GGINetwork Executive Coordinator @StimsonCenter | Global Youth Coordinator @c4unwn |🇮🇳🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇳| formerly @sdgintegration & @UNDPasiapac | @uclspp 🎓

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Articles

Who Could Be the Special Envoy for Future Generations?

Nov 5, 2024 | passblue.com | Thomas Hale |Nudhara Yusuf

At the Hamburg Sustainability Conference last month, the United Nations announced that the secretary-general will appoint an Envoy for Future Generations. This is an important follow-on to September’s Summit of the Future and fulfills a commitment made two years ago in the Our Common Agenda report.
UN’s Summit of the Future to Forge a New Path for Humanity

Sep 18, 2024 | ipsnews.net | Nudhara Yusuf

Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Editors' Choice, Featured, Global, Headlines, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Reprint | | Print | WASHINGTON DC, Sep 19 2024 (IPS) - A major event at UN Headquarters – Summit of the Future scheduled for September 22-23– is being billed as a once in a generation opportunity for the international community to grapple with important questions, and forge a new path, for the benefit of all. Nudhara...
Can the Pact for the Future Tackle Rising Human Insecurity?

Jul 16, 2024 | passblue.com | Richard Ponzio |Nudhara Yusuf

Since the release of the 1993 Human Development Report, the powerful notion of human security has evolved, incorporating principles of justice while elevating nature and technology’s roles in protecting and enriching human life. Still, the United Nations report’s original insight from more than three decades ago still holds true: secure nations require a sense of security, well-being and belonging among their citizens too.
MIL-OSI Asia-Pac: Guest Article: A Post-SDG Summit Review: What Happened and What Next?

Oct 11, 2023 | foreignaffairs.co.nz | John Gilroy |Abdulrahman Al-Thani |Nudhara Yusuf

Source: Small Island Developing StatesBy John Gilroy, Abdulrahman Al-Thani, and Nudhara YusufOn 14 September, SDG Lab, CEPEI, and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) hosted a pre-SDG Summit dialogue where the three of us spoke about what to expect from the upcoming SDG Summit. Now that the Summit has come and gone, we thought we’d better do our own “voluntary review” and bookend our pre-SDG Summit discussion with a post-SDG Summit review.
Guest Article: A Post-SDG Summit Review: What Happened and What Next?

Oct 11, 2023 | sdg.iisd.org | John Gilroy |Nudhara Yusuf |Abdulrahman Al-Thani

By John Gilroy, Abdulrahman Al-Thani, and Nudhara YusufOn 14 September, SDG Lab, CEPEI, and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) hosted a pre-SDG Summit dialogue where the three of us spoke about what to expect from the upcoming SDG Summit. Now that the Summit has come and gone, we thought we’d better do our own “voluntary review” and bookend our pre-SDG Summit discussion with a post-SDG Summit review. What happened in the areas we flagged to keep an eye on?
Half of All UN Members Abstained From US-Led Pledge Not to Weaponize Food in War

Aug 6, 2023 | passblue.com | Banjo Damilola |Savita Pawnday |Kate Ferguson |Joe Penney |Anastasiia Carrier |Nudhara Yusuf | +1 more

The United States and 90 other countries took a formal stand against weaponizing food in conflicts last week, while more than half - 102 United Nations member states - declined to sign the communiqué pledging to condemn the use of food as a tool of war. Only 11 of Africa's 54 countries agreed to the messaging.
The New UN Youth Office Creates a Chance for Stellar Leadership to Take Hold

Aug 2, 2023 | stimson.org | Nudhara Yusuf |Joaquin Matamis

The creation of a United Nations Youth Office represents a chance to pilot a new model of leadership in the UN — one that at its core is power-sharing and not power-concentrating. The precedent it sets will have lasting effects on the continuing work to foster youth leadership across the UN system, so it’s important to get this right, especially as the selection committee soon finalizes the candidate for assistant secretary-general of youth affairs.
Week Ending July 28

Jul 28, 2023 | passblue.com | Munir Akram |Banjo Damilola |Nudhara Yusuf |Saji Prelis |Dan Becker

This week, we focus on the coup in Niger, which has been condemned by the United Nations, African Union, United States, European Union and regional organizations. You are reading This Week @UN , summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and other sources.
The UN's Counterterrorism Office Keeps Growing, but Is Its Strategy Working?

Jul 25, 2023 | passblue.com | Arthur Bassas |Nudhara Yusuf |Saji Prelis |Dawn Clancy |Max-otto Baumann |Sebastian Haug

The United Nations Office of Counterterrorism says it is growing its offices overseas to become more efficient, but some civil society experts who follow the UN's counterterrorism work closely remain skeptical.
The New UN Youth Office Creates a Chance for Stellar Leadership to Take Hold

Jul 24, 2023 | passblue.com | Nudhara Yusuf |Saji Prelis |Moncef Khane |Anastasiia Carrier |Arthur Bassas |Hasmik Egian | +1 more

The creation of a United Nations Youth Office represents a chance to pilot a new model of leadership in the UN - one that at its core is power-sharing and not power-concentrating. The precedent it sets will have lasting effects on the continuing work to foster youth leadership across the UN system, so it's important to get this right, especially as the selection committee soon finalizes the candidate for assistant secretary-general of youth affairs.