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Development indicators trending downward for world’s poorest countries, UN warns
The least developed countries (LDCs) – nations categorized as requiring special attention from the international community – will fall short of goals set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development unless urgent action is taken, new United Nations analysis has revealed.
Poverty eradication, inclusive growth focus of UN Social Development Commission’s 2018 session
Countries must accelerate inclusive and equitable economic growth and sustainable development that will not leave behind vulnerable populations, such as women and youth, the United Nations deputy chief told the Commission for Social Development, which opened its annual session on Monday.
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Safe, effective family planning is key to ’empowering people, developing nations’ – UN
If the demand of women in developing countries who wanted access to safe and effective family planning was met, it would reduce an estimated 100,000 maternal death and avert 67 million unintended pregnancies, the United Nations population agency today said.
On International Day, UN promotes cooperative solutions for social inclusion
Cooperatives help to build inclusive economies and societies, and can help to eliminate poverty and reach the other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the head of the United Nations labour agency today said, marking the International Day of Cooperatives.
Task of eradicating poverty must be met ‘with a sense of urgency,’ says deputy UN chief
Eradicating poverty remains the greatest global challenge, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said today, calling for a collective and comprehensive approach that recognizes the multidimensional nature the issue and its interaction with other aspects.
Progress against tropical diseases must be backed by poverty alleviation efforts – UN health agency
The United Nations today cited “record-breaking” progress in controlling neglected tropical diseases – which blind, maim, disfigure and debilitate millions of people worldwide, especially in its poorest areas – as an estimated one billion people were reached with treatment for at least one of these diseases in 2015 alone, according to the Organization’s health agency.
On Universal Children’s Day, UN says world remains ‘deeply unfair’ place for children
Marking Universal Children’s Day, the United Nations today highlighted that the world remains a “deeply unfair” place for the poorest and most disadvantaged children despite major advances since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 26 years ago today.
Immediate push on climate-smart development can keep more than 100 million people out of poverty
Climate change is already preventing people from escaping poverty, and without rapid, inclusive and climate-smart development, together with emissions-reductions efforts that protect the poor, there could be more than 100 million additional people in poverty by 2030, according to a new World Bank Group report released before the international climate conference in Paris.
‘Our generation can be the first to witness a world without extreme poverty,’ says Ban
Today’s observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty at the UN calls for the participation of people living in poverty in the development of policies and strategies to ensure a sustainable future that benefits everyone and leaves no one behind.
Marking International Day, Ban says new 2030 Agenda can help eradicate poverty
This can be the first generation to witness a world without extreme poverty, where all people – not only the powerful and the privileged – can participate and contribute equally, free of discrimination and want, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared Friday, urging global action to fully implement the newly-adopted goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.
UN and partners to highlight innovations for achieving Sustainable Development Goals at Solutions Summit
In a bid to find new and creative solutions to world issues, the UN, along with partner organisations, will be highlighting key work done by innovators from across the world. These will be projects that have already been looking at how to address some of the problems the sustainable development goals also aim to tackle.
At Stanford University, Ban says UN ready to build a better future for all
The United Nations and the international community are experiencing an age of great difficulties and opportunities which will help define the future of the planet, Ban Ki-moon declared in a wide-ranging address that touched upon the myriad common challenges – from climate change to sustainable development – currently facing humanity.
In 2015, world must ‘realize great dream’ of sustainable development for all – UN Economic and Social Council chief
The President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) today opened the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, declaring that 2015 must be the year when the world’s people and leaders realize the dream of a new sustainability agenda.
On UN Charter Day, Ban calls for ‘deeper cooperation’ amid growing global challenges
On June 26th, 1945, the United Nations was born from the ashes and rubble of the Second World War as delegates from fifty nations came together to sign the UN Charter – the Organization's founding document and the bedrock of global peace and development.
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.
Forests pivotal to new sustainable development agenda
Deliberations beginning this week at the eleventh session of the UN Forum on Forests present an unprecedented opportunity to forge an international forest policy for the next 15 years that will be aligned with the new sustainable development agenda expected to be adopted in September.