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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%…
11 July 2023 | Poverty Eradication
In November 2022, the world’s population surpassed 8 billion people, having grown by 1 billion since 2010. Reaching this milestone raises important questions concerning the impact of human activities on the planet and its ability to sustain life for…
10 July 2023 | Poverty Eradication
Halfway to 2030, the SDGs are in peril
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - the blueprint for a more resilient, inclusive, and sustainable future by 2030 - are in peril. The world has entered an age of hard-earned SDG progress threatened by…
06 July 2023 | Poverty Eradication
3 July 2023 - This month, government representatives, businesses, civil society organizations, young people and other international actors will gather for the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development, taking place on 10-19 July…
04 April 2023 | Poverty Eradication
17.04.2023 - 20.04.2023
UNHQ
The global economic outlook remains fragile amid a highly challenging environment. Countries are facing difficult economic policy trade-offs and recent shocks are threatening to further reverse progress on the 2030…
31 March 2023 | Poverty Eradication
The UN 2023 Water Conference closed on Friday with the adoption of the Water Action Agenda, a “milestone” action plan containing almost 700 commitments to protect “humanity’s most precious global common good”.
The Agenda sets out a series of …