World Environment Day (WED) 2024 host, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Nations Environment Programme, (UNEP) have launched campaigns to combat desertification, restore land and build drought resilience ahead of global WED celebrations on…
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07 May 2024 | Poverty Eradication
07 May 2024 | Poverty Eradication
The Global Coalition for Social Justice is an initiative of the ILO Director-General Houngbo, and has been shaped and developed in close consultation with ILO tripartite constituents, and endorsed by the ILO Governing Body in November 2023. The…
07 May 2024 | Poverty Eradication
The United Nations Civil Society Conference is the premier event on the civil society calendar at the United Nations. The Conference offers civil society organizations an opportunity to put a global perspective on a specific issue and brings…
06 May 2024 | Poverty Eradication
Climate change exposes children to risk in different ways. Rising temperatures and other environmental changes can make diseases more dangerous, droughts more common and can significantly impact children’s growth and development.
Almost all the…
17 April 2024 | Poverty Eradication
UN Secretary-General António Guterres celebrated the achievements and contributions of people of African descent from across the world, while addressing the forum via video message, but also acknowledged existing racial discrimination and…
17 April 2024 | Poverty Eradication
Today, the UNFPA State of World Population report highlights the progress that has been made in the 30 years since the International Conference on Population and Development — where world leaders defined a bold agenda to put people's sexual and…
12 April 2024 | Poverty Eradication
The world is facing a sustainable development crisis. The 2024 Financing for Sustainable Development Report: Financing for Development at a Crossroads finds that financing challenges are at the heart of the crisis and imperil the SDGs and climate…
12 April 2024 | Poverty Eradication
The UN Environment Programme’s Food Waste Index Report 2024 highlights that latest data from 2022 shows 1.05 billion tonnes of food went to waste.
Some 19 per cent of food available to consumers was lost overall at retail, food service, and…
03 April 2024 | Poverty Eradication
The 2024 ECOSOC Financing for Development (FfD) Forum will be held from 22 to 25 April 2024 in the Trusteeship Council, at UN Headquarters, New York. Civil society organizations and other stakeholders are key to inclusive, multi-stakeholder…
03 April 2024 | Poverty Eradication
Where We Are
SDG 4 – Quality Education – aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and to promote lifelong opportunities for all.
Although some progress towards SDG4 has been made, the pace of change is slow and uneven, with…
22 March 2024 | Poverty Eradication
Creating a positive ripple effect
The theme of World Water Day 2024 is ‘Water for Peace’.
When we cooperate on water, we create a positive ripple effect – fostering harmony, generating prosperity and building resilience to shared challenges.
We…
11 March 2024 | Poverty Eradication
More women than men are living in poverty overall. Currently, more than 10 per cent of women globally are trapped in a cycle of extreme poverty, living on less than USD 2.15 a day. At the current rate of progress, as many as 342 million women (8 per…