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| Women
Progress 2015 draws on the experiences of those working toward gender equality and women’s rights around the world. It provides the key elements of a far-reaching new policy agenda that can transform economies and make women’s rights a reality.…
| Indigenous Peoples
The Permanent Forum was established by the UN in response to demands from indigenous peoples for a high-level permanent body at the United Nations.
The 14th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII14) will be held at…
| Social Inclusion
Leaders from around the world opened the 48th session of the Commission on Population and Development on 13 April 2015, where they will take stock of the world's development and the welfare of its people.
Below are 10 little-known facts about the…
| Poverty Eradication, | Social Inclusion
Anonymized data – information from which the identity of the sender has been stripped – from mobile telephone usage could provide vital support in efforts to achieve sustainable development and to respond to humanitarian crises, according to…
| Poverty Eradication, | Social Inclusion
Anonymized data – information from which the identity of the sender has been stripped – from mobile telephone usage could provide vital support in efforts to achieve sustainable development and to respond to humanitarian crises, according to…
| Poverty Eradication
Civil society actors have a critical role to play in the outlining of a successful post-2015 sustainable development agenda, President of the United Nations General Assembly Sam Kutesa declared today.
In a statement made to the Assembly’s Informal…
| Youth
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the international launch of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report:
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural…
| Indigenous Peoples
As part of promoting the 20th Anniversary of the 1995 World Summit for Social Development and the adoption of the Copenhagen Declaration and Programme of Action, UNDESA Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) launched a yearlong…
| Disabilities
On Wednesday March 25th 2015 the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) co-organised a panel discussion…
| Poverty Eradication
As the Economic and Social Council concluded its three-day segment on boosting integration of the three pillars of sustainable development, the body’s Vice-President said he would work with the United Nations labour agency to follow-up on delegates…
| Ageing, | Youth
The special theme for the forty-eighth session of the Commission on Population and Development, which will take place during 13-17 April 2015, will be “Realizing the future we want: Integrating population issues into sustainable development,…
| Ageing, | Youth
The special theme for the forty-eighth session of the Commission on Population and Development, which will take place during 13-17 April 2015, will be “Realizing the future we want: Integrating population issues into sustainable development,…