2012 News Archive
December
- Global economic outlook for 2013 revealed
- Green growth and jobs for youth
- At policy discussion, UN official highlights need for more effort to achieve gender equality
- Indigenous filmmaker with important message
- UN Secretary-General calls to bridge gap between commitments and actions for persons with disabilities
November
- Building capacities to achieve MDGs
- Population dynamics is focus of online discussion
- Join chat on global development agenda beyond 2015
- Year celebrating cooperatives comes full circle
- Boosting development with broadband and ICTs
- UN calls for nominations for 2013 Public Service Awards
- Strengthening capacities for a sustainable future
- Over two billion people now connected to Internet but digital divide remains wide
- Face-to-face with sustainable development challenges
- DESA’s monthly newsletter
October
- Human life dependent on ‘planetary boundaries’ that should not be crossed
- Vicious cycle of debt, low growth and high unemployment dominate global economic woes
- Global input sought for UN anti-hunger meeting
- On Day for Eradication of Poverty, UN highlights needs for a holistic approach to helping world’s poor
- Voices of youth at the UN General Assembly
- Slow growth in Europe affects Asian exports
- Economic and Financial Committee follows up on Rio+20
- Serving the well-being of future generations
- UN urges countries to address needs of ageing population
- DESA’s monthly newsletter
September
- Follow up to Rio+20 and launch of Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform
- UN meeting debates how to improve multilateral system for sustainable development aims
- Significant MDG gains risk slowing under declining aid
- General Assembly opens new session with call to tackle urgent global issues
- Experts answer online questions on empowerment
- Seeking to advance rights of people with disabilities, UN treaty review starts in New York
- Help build the future WE want
- Keeping the momentum beyond 2015
- Empowering people to advance development
August
- Drought in U.S. pushing up world food prices
- Online survey on promoting empowerment of people
- Protecting the rights of older people
- Sustainable development network launched to help find solutions to global problems
- Geospatial information: Measuring sustainable development
- Celebrating the world’s indigenous peoples
- International Youth Day 2012 Google+ Hangouts
- DESA’s new Under-Secretary-General assumes office
- Secretary-General names high-level panel to map out ‘bold’ vision for future global development efforts
July
- As ECOSOC annual substantive session ends, UN officials hail achievements
- New portal facilitates network for social development
- Picking up the tab for development
- Act local, think global: How NYC Coops advance development
- New Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development takes office
- ECOSOC high-level segment ends with call for partnerships
- New Deputy Secretary-General underscores strong commitment to development
- Development Cooperation Forum ends with call for strong collaboration among states
- UN calls for international tax to raise $400 billion to finance development needs
- UN development cooperation forum to address poverty reduction and sustainability
- ECOSOC high-level meeting opens with focus on jobs crisis
- Global partnership key to achieving MDGs by 2015
June
- Employment in focus as month-long ECOSOC session starts
- UN hails commitment of public servants to bettering their communities
- $513 billion pledged towards sustainable development
- UN awards 44 organizations for public service excellence
- Rio+20: UN Conference on Sustainable Development kicks off with call to action
- Rio+20 opens after countries reach agreement to spur action on sustainable development
- Rio+20: countries announce agreement on Conference’s outcome document
- Rio+20: ‘Encouraging progress’ made on outcome document
- Global Peace Index: Nine trillion reasons to pursue peace
- Rio+20: countries accelerate negotiations to reach accord on outcome document
- Sha Zukang interviewed ahead of Rio+20
- Connecting co-ops: the importance of ICT
- UN bike ride supports sustainable transport
- Euro zone debt crisis: a danger for the global economy
- Rio+20: Foundations are in place for agreement
- New website to follow progress on MDGs
- Environment Day calls for sustainable solutions
- The challenge of job creation after conflicts
- Brice Lalonde: “We need youth’s imagination”
May
- Goals and actions for a sustainable future
- Five more days to negotiate on Rio+20
- Youth forum: UN labour chief warns of ‘growing discontent’
- Concrete commitments called for ahead of Rio+20
- Youth asked to “make some noise” ahead of Rio+20
- Human and natural capital as important as financial capital
- 5 years of rights for indigenous peoples
- Work-family balance benefits families and society
- Development cooperation accelerates sustainable development
- Live Chat on Facebook: Potential risks and challenges of the world economy
- Work remains to realize rights of indigenous peoples
- Countries seek new path towards agreement for Rio+20
- Countries Seek New Path Towards Agreement for Rio+20
- Young people continue to be the hardest hit by the job crisis
- DESA’s monthly newsletter
April
- New Indicators to understand the situation of youth
- Sixteen million adolescent girls become mothers every year
- Rio+20 Negotiations to Energize Sustainable Development Agenda
- “We Have the Resources and the Scientific Knowledge to Save Our Planet”
- Silent Shout for Equality: Deaf Hip-Hop Artist’s Performance at UN Headquarters
- New banks in town: Chinese finance in Latin America
- Business and Industry Can Lead Countries Towards Sustainable Development
- Brazil and UN Sign Key Legal Agreement to Host Rio+20
- South Africa’s Carbon Tax: a Far-Sighted Move Towards a Greener World
- Youth education, employment and empowerment key to global progress
- DESA’s monthly newsletter
March
- New ways to measure poverty from a gender perspective
- Member States committed to a high level of ambition for Rio+20
- Transitioning from least developed country status
- Ensuring access to water for agriculture is vital for sustainable future
- UN Secretary-General underlines rights of persons with Down syndrome
- UN experts call for including human rights standards in development goals
- Connecting governments to citizens
- One Hundred days to Rio + 20
- Promoting jobs, growth and the green economy
- Committed to a future we want
- Conversations on youth employment
- DESA’s monthly newsletter
February
- Facing the challenge of measuring the unmeasurable
- UN jobs forum hears call to unlock potential of young people
- Counting the world’s population
- The Chinese model of economic success
- Working together to solve youth unemployment
- Examining disability issues and the MDGs
- Coordinating international migration issues
- UN official outlines priorities ahead of sustainable development summit
- Forest heroes honoured at closing ceremony
- Understanding today’s economic volatility
- Connection technologies to play critical role in building sustainable future – UN
- Giving young people a voice
- Role of cooperatives in poverty elimination
- Working together to eradicate poverty
- DESA’s monthly newsletter
January
- With new blueprint in hand, Ban calls for action to chart more sustainable future
- Perspectives on social cohesion – the glue that holds society together
- Ensuring diverse participation for Rio+20
- Combating violence against indigenous women and girls
- Live Facebook chat on world economy
- Can a protracted economic slowdown be avoided?
- Preparations for Rio+20 are underway
- Slovak official to lead UN Economic and Social Council
- Ban Ki-moon highlights sustainable development as a top priority
- Ban stresses ‘people power’ and partnerships at start of second term as UN chief
- DESA’s monthly newsletter
