Latin American and Caribbean Ministers and senior United Nations representatives called for a rethinking of the international financial architecture to put inclusion at the centre of the new post-2015 development agenda, in the context of a meeting on financing for development held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.
Targeted development programmes prioritising smallholder farmers [...]
Although businesses were not part of the discussions at the historic Beijing Women’s Conference 20 years ago, it is now clear that achieving gender equality will require the concerted efforts of the private sector, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told participants at the annual Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) event at UN Headquarters.
Opinion piece by Mary Robinson, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Amina J. Mohammed, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser and Assistant-Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning.
Food prices dipped to a 55-month low in February, dropping [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today warned that “growing global inequality, [...]
As countries prepare to meet at the Third Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in less than two weeks, UN officials tell us why strengthening our resilience is essential if we want to achieve sustainable development.
The head of the United Nations agriculture agency underlined yesterday the huge importance of agriculture and farming to countries of the Caribbean during an address to Heads of Government at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) summit in the Bahamas.
When leaders and decision makers from across Asia and the Pacific gather next month in Japan to discuss how to reduce disaster risks, their top priority will be to build resilience in a region that saw some 80 million people affected and nearly $60 billion in economic losses incurred by natural disasters last year.
Private sector services, such as business and administrative services, and real estate, as well as related industries, will employ more than a third of the global workforce over the next five years, according to new data released by the United Nations labour agency.
An extra 10 million people worldwide are likely to be unemployed by 2019, a new United Nations report has said today, pointing to slower growth, widening inequalities and economic turbulence as reasons behind the trend.
Addressing the United Nations Global Compact board meeting this afternoon, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said everyone held a stake in ending poverty, transforming people’s lives and protecting the planet.
