Chronicle Conversations

The United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology, Under-Secretary-General Amandeep Gill.

Under-Secretary-General Amandeep Gill, the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology, discusses the state of artificial intelligence (AI), its potential use by the United Nations to address global...

Jack Sim, Founder and Director of the World Toilet Organization and Novus Prize recipient, at United Nations Headquarters in New York, 2016. Photo courtesy of the World Toilet Organization

Ahead of World Toilet Day (19 November), the UN Chronicle spoke with Jack Sim, Founder and Director of the World Toilet Organization. Mr. Sim, popularly known as "Mr. Toilet", who...

In the context of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers (29 May 2022), the UN Chronicle talks with Mr. Stéphane Jean, a Judicial Officer and Coordinator in the United...

The UN Chronicle speaks with elite runners Fernanda Maciel and Tina Muir about their passion for running and ...

Former US Ambassador William vanden Heuvel, Chair Emeritus and founder of the Roosevelt Institute, discusses the legacy of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the United Nations in the context...

Inge Auerbacher recounts her experience as a Holocaust survivor, and describes her lifelong mission to educate people about the dangers of intolerance and the importance of love.

Chronicle Conversation: Jean-Claude Guédon, 18 November 2019

The UN Chronicle discusses the future of scholarly communication and the 2030 Agenda with Jean-Claude Guédon, Professor of Comparative Literature (retired), University of Montréal, a...

A round-table meeting taking place during the tenth session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. United Nations Headquarters, New York, 14 June 2017. UN Photo/Kim Haughton.

Persons with disabilities should have a representative voice, chosen by persons with disabilities themselves, in every platform that has an impact on their interests, for they are best positioned...

Vasily Alekseyevich Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, talks with Lyubov Ginzburg of the UN Chronicle about the legacy of Russian politician...

Lyubov Ginzburg of the UN Chronicle interviews fifteen-year-old environmental activist Aditya Mukarji on the problem of plastic pollution and the first-ever United Nations Youth Climate...

Chronicle Conversation: Stefan Schweinfest, 22 July 2019

In our inaugural Chronicle Conversation, the Director of the United Nations Statistics Division, Stefan Schweinfest, explains how better data can lead to better lives, and introduces the...