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08 January 2025 | Poverty Eradication
The coming year brings a number of major milestones for sustainable development. Throughout the year, key events and observances offer opportunities to highlight interconnected solutions and galvanize action. A throughline for many of these events…
27 November 2024 | Poverty Eradication
As the world grapples with complex global concerns like poverty, inequality, and climate change, it’s the poorest communities that are often hardest hit and the most challenging to support.
To address these pressing issues, the World Bank Group…
11 November 2024 | Poverty Eradication
Record-breaking floods in Spain, violent storms in Florida and wildfires in South America – these are just a few examples of the extreme weather events accelerating and intensifying across the world. With the cost of inaction clearer than ever,…
05 November 2024 | Poverty Eradication
Cities are both the victims of climate change and among its worst offenders: though disproportionately exposed to its impacts, they are also responsible for generating a significant share of global greenhouse gas emissions. From flooding to…
31 October 2024 | Poverty Eradication
The Hunger Hotspots: FAO/WFP Early Warnings on Acute Food Insecurity report is a series of analytical products produced under the Global Network Against Food Crises initiative, to enhance and coordinate the generation and sharing of evidence-based…
22 October 2024 | Poverty Eradication
More than 260 million people in the Asia-Pacific region could be pushed into poverty in the next decade unless governments step up with robust social protection schemes, according to a United Nations report released earlier this month.
The findings…
21 October 2024 | Poverty Eradication
The twelfth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF12), organized by UN-Habitat, will take place in Cairo, Egypt, from 4 to 8 November 2024.
As the largest UN non-legislative event on sustainable urbanization, with over 20,000 participants expected…
18 October 2024 | Poverty Eradication
UNDP and OPHI’s new research found that poverty rates in countries affected by conflict are nearly three times as high as compared to countries not affected by conflict. The report includes an in-depth case study on Afghanistan, where 5.3 million…
17 October 2024 | Poverty Eradication
The world is facing multiple crises, from the lingering effects of COVID-19 to rising conflicts, natural disasters and the accelerating impacts of climate change. These challenges have been exacerbated by increased inequalities, pollution and…
17 October 2024 | Poverty Eradication
16 October 2024 - The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2024 highlights a widespread but often ignored aspect of poverty: social and institutional mistreatment. This hidden violence, which includes stigma, discrimination, and the…
17 October 2024 | Poverty Eradication
Press Briefing, 17 October 2024, 12:45 pm EDT
Featuring:
Shantanu Mukherjee, Director, Economic Analysis and Policy Division, UN DESA
Wenyan Yang, Chief, Global Dialogue for Social Development Branch, Division for Inclusive Social Development, UN…
17 October 2024 | Poverty Eradication
Abraham was not allowed to sit exams at his local school. Like many children around the world, he did not have a birth certificate. He says: “Not having a birth certificate is like saying you don’t exist as a child, as a human being.” As a result,…