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30 April 2014 | Poverty Eradication
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has announced business-building proposals from Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, India, Iran, Kenya, Rwanda, Timor Leste and Zambia as winners of the 2013 Fund for Evaluation in Employment.
Launched in 2010, the Fund…
15 April 2014 | Poverty Eradication
According to UNICEF, diarrhoeal diseases linked to water and sanitation kill 1,400 children every day, and contribute to stunting in over 160 million children globally.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, and…
09 April 2014 | Ageing, Poverty Eradication, Women, Youth
Twenty years ago, the international community gathered in Cairo, Egypt, to explore how the world was changing and how those changes were affecting the most vulnerable. At the 1994 meeting, the International Conference on Population and Development (…
09 April 2014 | Ageing, Poverty Eradication, Women, Youth
Twenty years ago, the international community gathered in Cairo, Egypt, to explore how the world was changing and how those changes were affecting the most vulnerable. At the 1994 meeting, the International Conference on Population and Development (…
09 April 2014 | Ageing, Poverty Eradication, Women, Youth
Twenty years ago, the international community gathered in Cairo, Egypt, to explore how the world was changing and how those changes were affecting the most vulnerable. At the 1994 meeting, the International Conference on Population and Development (…
09 April 2014 | Ageing, Poverty Eradication, Women, Youth
Twenty years ago, the international community gathered in Cairo, Egypt, to explore how the world was changing and how those changes were affecting the most vulnerable. At the 1994 meeting, the International Conference on Population and Development (…
12 March 2014 | Ageing, Disabilities, Indigenous Peoples, Poverty Eradication, Women
Last Friday, 7 March, the Policy Strategy Group of the World We Want 2015 platform hosted its Seventh Interactive Session of its People's Voices Series. The “People's Voices” Series is an opportunity for people to showcase various points of view and…
12 March 2014 | Ageing, Disabilities, Indigenous Peoples, Poverty Eradication, Women
Last Friday, 7 March, the Policy Strategy Group of the World We Want 2015 platform hosted its Seventh Interactive Session of its People's Voices Series. The “People's Voices” Series is an opportunity for people to showcase various points of view and…
12 March 2014 | Ageing, Disabilities, Indigenous Peoples, Poverty Eradication, Women
Last Friday, 7 March, the Policy Strategy Group of the World We Want 2015 platform hosted its Seventh Interactive Session of its People's Voices Series. The “People's Voices” Series is an opportunity for people to showcase various points of view and…
12 March 2014 | Ageing, Disabilities, Indigenous Peoples, Poverty Eradication, Women
Last Friday, 7 March, the Policy Strategy Group of the World We Want 2015 platform hosted its Seventh Interactive Session of its People's Voices Series. The “People's Voices” Series is an opportunity for people to showcase various points of view and…
12 March 2014 | Ageing, Disabilities, Indigenous Peoples, Poverty Eradication, Women
Last Friday, 7 March, the Policy Strategy Group of the World We Want 2015 platform hosted its Seventh Interactive Session of its People's Voices Series. The “People's Voices” Series is an opportunity for people to showcase various points of view and…
04 March 2014 | Cooperatives, Poverty Eradication
Ensuring food security is one of the most pressing challenges in Africa, which is increasingly losing ground as a result of challenges from climate change to land degradation, the top United Nations environment official today said, urging a…