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15 March 2020 | Poverty Eradication
In a video message recorded on Friday afternoon, UN chief António Guterres assured the world that the COVID-19 virus will peak, and the global economy will recover but, until then, “we must act together to slow the spread of the virus and look after…
09 March 2020 | Poverty Eradication, Social Inclusion
The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action of 1995 (Beijing Platform for Action) is the most visionary agenda for the empowerment of women and girls, everywhere. Developed at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China—known as the…
09 March 2020 | Poverty Eradication, Social Inclusion
The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action of 1995 (Beijing Platform for Action) is the most visionary agenda for the empowerment of women and girls, everywhere. Developed at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China—known as the…
09 February 2020 | Poverty Eradication
Make Us Count is a campaign powered by the UN Working Group to End Homelessness. Made up of NGOs from across the world, the Working Group advocates at the UN’s HQ in New York for those experiencing homelessness.
In February 2020, the UN will issue a…
02 February 2020 | Poverty Eradication
The World Social Report 2020, published by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), shows that income inequality has increased in most developed countries, and some middle-income countries - including China, which has the…
24 December 2019 | Poverty Eradication
“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of…
23 December 2019 | Poverty Eradication
December is a time to recall that all migrants—no matter their immigration status—are entitled to the same basic human rights as everyone else. Migrants form a vital and integral part of our societies and contribute much to sustainable development.…
13 December 2019 | Poverty Eradication
Despite global progress in tackling poverty, hunger and disease, a “new generation of inequalities” indicates that many societies are not working as they should, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) argues in its latest report released on Monday.…
27 November 2019 | Poverty Eradication
Each year on October 17, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, people from diverse backgrounds all over the world get together to commemorate the day and to hear people with lived experience of poverty share not only their…
27 November 2019 | Poverty Eradication
The World Cities Day celebrated each year on 31st of October is expected to greatly promote the international community’s interest in global urbanization, push forward cooperation among countries in meeting opportunities and addressing challenges of…
30 September 2019 | Poverty Eradication
On 23 September at UN Headquarters in New York, world leaders adopted a high-level United Nations Political Declaration on universal health coverage (UHC), the most comprehensive set of health commitments ever adopted at this level.
“This…
20 September 2019 | Poverty Eradication
Global emissions are reaching record levels and show no sign of peaking. The last four years were the four hottest on record, and winter temperatures in the Arctic have risen by 3°C since 1990. Sea levels are rising, coral reefs are dying, and we…