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14 July 2017 | Poverty Eradication
Senior government representatives are at the United Nations today for the start of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development to track progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), two years after they were adopted.
Opening…
19 June 2017 | Poverty Eradication
On June 7 at the European Development Days in Brussels, a number of the SDG Advocates participated in an emotive and thought-provoking panel on “What transformative changes are needed to fulfil the 2030 Agenda’s promise to leave no one behind?”. The…
30 May 2017 | Poverty Eradication
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is unprecedented in scope and significance. However, also unprecedented is the sum needed to achieve all 17 goals.
One clear message from the ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development (FfD) Follow-up (22…
30 May 2017 | Poverty Eradication
The principle of integration is at the core of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. One major difference between the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the 2030 Agenda, is the shift from a sectorial way of thinking to a highly…
25 May 2017 | Poverty Eradication
Civil society and non-governmental organizations play a vital role as partners to the UN in implementing development goals and assisting people at the local level in countries across the globe. Every year, NGOs from around the world can apply for…
15 May 2017 | Poverty Eradication
Eradicating poverty remains the greatest global challenge, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said today, calling for a collective and comprehensive approach that recognizes the multidimensional nature of the issue and its…
12 May 2017 | Poverty Eradication
Two thirds of countries in the Arab region rank either high or very high on the Human Development Index (HDI), with 5 out of the 10 best examples of human development progress coming from the Arab region, according to the Human Development Report…
28 April 2017 | Poverty Eradication
An estimated 767 million people, or 11 per cent of the world’s population, live below $1.90USD per day, and about 800 million people suffer from hunger across the globe. Furthermore, nearly 1 billion people live without electricity and scarcity of…
25 April 2017 | Poverty Eradication
The UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA) will meet from 24 to 28 April for its sixteenth session at UN Headquarters in New York. The twenty-four Committee members will hold discussions on the theme of “Ensuring effective…
18 April 2017 | Poverty Eradication
The NGO Committee on Social Development is conducting a survey to gather information to give an additional voice at the UN for the grassroots in regard to sustainable development. Information from the survey will be published in a report which will…
31 March 2017 | Poverty Eradication
At a time of unprecedented challenges that demand collective action, we cannot accept the waste of human potential that poverty represents.
Poverty is a form of violence. It leads to prejudice and humiliation and it silences people. It destroys…
27 March 2017 | Ageing, Poverty Eradication
Based on the initiative of the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Office of National Statistics (ONS) of the United Kingdom an informal group of representatives from UN agencies (UNDP, UN Women, UNFPA, WHO) and the UN…