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20 February 2024 | Poverty Eradication
Keeping the Promise: Leave No One Behind! Social Protection Responses to Forcibly Displaced Children
8th February 2024, CSocD62 Side Event organized by the World Organization for Early Childhood Education (OMEP) in collaboration with other NGOs brought together global experts to address the challenges faced by millions of forcibly displaced…
05 February 2024 | Poverty Eradication
This communication campaign aims to accelerate efforts to reduce inequalities in the world of work and promote social justice on a global scale.
A pressing need to tackle inequality
Inequalities are a major and tangible social injustice, which…
02 February 2024 | Poverty Eradication
This paper presents its findings, perspectives, and recommendations to advance further the goals and commitments outlined in the Declaration. It offers valuable insights into progress, identifies challenges, and proposes actionable recommendations…
09 January 2024 | Poverty Eradication
The flagship forecast launched in New York on Thursday indicates that last year’s stronger-than-expected GDP growth coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic masked short-term risks and structural vulnerabilities in the world economy.
The sombre short-…
07 December 2023 | Poverty Eradication
The key to ensuring that communities – especially the most vulnerable – can leave fossil-fuel based economies behind, is to create space for a just transition to a green economy, clean energy advocates and representatives of indigenous groups argued…
19 July 2023 | Poverty Eradication
It all begins with food. Small-scale farmers produce up to 70 per cent of the food in low- and middle-income countries, yet they are often cut off from the services they need to pull themselves out of poverty and food insecurity. What's more, hunger…
18 July 2023 | Poverty Eradication
12/07/2023
Rome/New York/Geneva – Over 122 million more people are facing hunger in the world since 2019 due to the pandemic and repeated weather shocks and conflicts, including the war in Ukraine, according to the latest State of Food Security and…
18 July 2023 | Poverty Eradication
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that while ambition, urgency and solidarity have been lacking to overcome the myriad challenges, many countries are now staring into “a financial abyss”, strangling the resources needed to realize the 2030…
12 July 2023 | Poverty Eradication
New York City – The latest update of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) with estimates for 110 countries was released today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI…
12 July 2023 | Poverty Eradication
Unless we act now, the 2030 Agenda will become an epitaph for a world that might have been.
António GuterresSecretary-General, United Nations
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2023: Special Edition provides a powerful call to action,…
11 July 2023 | Poverty Eradication
The world we live in today is filled with both hope and anxieties. We have made significant progress in terms of health, rights, and choices, with a larger human population than ever before. However, we face challenges such as economic uncertainty,…
11 July 2023 | Poverty Eradication
"Gender-based discrimination harms everyone – women, girls, men, and boys. Investing in women uplifts all people, communities, and countries." ---- UN Secretary-General António Guterres
What women and girls want matters.
They make up 49.7%…