UN and partners launch initiative to reach equal pay for women at work
Striving to raise up women’s pay across the world to [...]
Eleven global banks partner with UN to make financial markets more climate transparent
Representing over $7 trillion, eleven major financial institutions around the globe have joined forces with the United Nations to promote climate transparency in financial markets, the Organization’s environment wing said today.
New UN report encourages African countries to harness growing tourism sector
African governments should make it easier and safer for Africans to travel within the continent, the United Nations said in a new report released today, noting that tourism demand there is increasingly driven by Africans themselves.
UN recognizes young entrepreneurs on Day for micro-, small, medium-sized enterprises
United Nations agencies today launched a new campaign to make it easier for the 70 million unemployed youth to get financing and learn new skills to start a business.
Innovators, UN discuss using tech to tackle world’s development challenges
From drones dropping food and medicines, to handheld devices that can diagnose Ebola with a drop of blood, the latest technological advances are converging to make the “unthinkable happen,” said global innovators and heads of tech companies invited to the United Nations today to discuss how to emerging technologies can boost achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
At China’s Belt and Road Forum, UN chief Guterres stresses shared development goals
Speaking at a major international conference in Beijing, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today drew comparisons between China's 'One Belt, One Road' initiative and the Sustainable Development Goals, saying both are rooted in a shared vision for global development.
‘World’s most powerful job creators,’ small enterprises vital to achieving Global Goals – UN official
By leveraging their ingenuity and creativity to harness new market opportunities, micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises can lead the way towards achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a senior United Nations official said today in remarks to a high-level meeting on the issue.
Accurate occupational data vital to save lives, says UN labour agency on World Day
Even though more than 2.3 million fatalities and 300 million accidents resulting in injuries are estimated to occur in workplaces around the globe each year, the actual impact remains largely unknown, the United Nations International Labour Organization has warned, highlighting the need to “vastly” improve national occupational safety and health data (OSH).
UN report: Modest economic growth not an indication of revived global demand
The world economy expanded by just 2.2 per cent in 2016, the slowest rate of growth since the 2009 global recession.
Report: Small farmers can earn big returns by investing in climate adaptation
IFAD report shows that for every dollar invested through its Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP), farmers could earn a return of between $1.40 and $2.60 over a 20 year period by applying climate change adaptation practices.
UN Deputy: Least developed countries will miss 2021 targets without support
Unless progress speeds up considerably, the world's LDCs will miss the growth targets they have set themselves by the target date of 2021, UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson warned.
Media advisory: Briefing to present World Economic Situation and Prospect as of mid- 2016 Report
Economic activity in the world economy remains weak with little prospect for a turnaround in 2016, says an updated UN report to be released 12 May.
Indigenous Mbororo woman to speak at Paris Agreement signing ceremony on 22 April
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, an Indigenous woman from the Mbororo pastoralist community of Chad, is the speaker selected to represent civil society at the 22 April signing ceremony of the historic climate agreement that was reached in Paris last December.
Pulses are praised for health, ecological and economic benefits
"Pulses are good for people, and are good for soils," Eduardo Mansur, the head of FAO's land and water division, said today at an event that highlighted the promising future of edible seeds such as lentils, chickpeas and pigeon peas, all often neglected in the shadow of the world's major staple grains.
At UN-backed forum, Africa’s least developed countries pledge to transform their economies
Voicing determination to transform the structure of their economies and graduate from their status as some of the world's poorest nations, Ministers from the least developed countries (LDCs) in Africa at a United Nations-supported meeting in Milan have pledged to draw on their countries' great potential to boost growth and lock in sustainable development.