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August 2020
Coronavirus and schools: Access to handwashing facilities key for safe reopening
Nearly 820 million children worldwide do not have basic handwashing [...]
Amid COVID-19, UN commitment to peace ‘more urgent than ever’
COVID-19 threatens not only hard-won development and peacebuilding gains, but [...]
July 2020
COVID-19 is not just seasonal, cautions WHO, as ‘first wave’ continues
The COVID-19 virus is likely not impacted by the changing [...]
We must all accept hard choices if we’re to beat COVID-19, urges WHO
Governments everywhere should adopt a much more focused approach to [...]
World’s poorest being pushed ‘closer to the abyss’ of famine, warns WFP chief
Hunger threatens to soar to devastating levels in 25 countries in the coming months due to the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the World Food Programme (WFP) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are warning.
World off track in meeting 2030 Agenda, UN deputy chief warns, calls for solidarity in COVID-19 recovery
The world was off track in achieving the Sustainable Development [...]
SDG Media Zone – The Importance of Vaccines
The SDG Media Zone puts a spotlight on the search for vaccines in this panel of health experts, asking the question - even if there’s access, how do we cut through the web of vaccine fear-mongering and misinformation that exists today?
SG Speech: A New Social Contract for a New Era, 18 July
On Nelson Mandela International Day, 18 July, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will deliver the 18th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture. In his speech “Tackling the Inequality Pandemic: A New Social Contract for a New Era”, the Secretary-General will take aim at the various layers of inequality that are being exposed and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
SDG Media Zone – Solidarity at the Heart of Recovery
No region has been spared from the spread of COVID-19. Its ripple effects have been complex and widespread, and no country or community can escape either the health or the socio-economic dimensions of the crisis on its own. The SDG Media Zone features a discussion on solidarity at the heart of recovery.
SDG Media Zone – Do the Sustainable Development Goals Still Matter?
SDG Media Zone: UN Deputy-Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and SDG Advocates, Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway, and Actress and UN Environment Programme’s Goodwill Ambassador Dia Mirza, discuss the value of the Sustainable Development Goals as the world reels from the devastating impact of the pandemic, in the hopes of building back better.
Rising global temperature shows ‘enormous challenge’ of meeting climate goal
Annual global temperature is likely to be at least 1°C [...]
Global Acceleration Framework to speed up water and sanitation access for all
A new mechanism launched on Thursday aims to speed up action so that people everywhere will have access to water and sanitation by the end of the decade, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).