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04 November 2014 | Disabilities
The Preparatory Committee of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (3WCDRR) will meet for its second session from 17 to 18 November 2014 in Geneva, Switzerland, to negotiate a zero draft of the post-2015 disaster risk reduction…
04 November 2014 | Social Inclusion
The international community must aid the world’s landlocked developing countries (LLDC) in pursuing their goals for greater economic development to transition from being landlocked to “landlinked,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon advised today, noting…
03 November 2014 | Youth
The safe use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) by children and adolescents in the region can help ensure the fulfillment of their rights, according to two documents released today by the Economic Commission for Latin America and…
03 November 2014 | Disabilities
The Third Committee of the 69th session of the General Assembly discussed disability issues this month at UN Headquarters in New York. The Committee reviewed the Reports of the Secretary-General on a disability-inclusive development agenda towards…
31 October 2014 | Youth
ITU is strengthening its commitment to including young people in its policy-setting processes with a special Youth Programme underway at its Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-14) currently underway in Busan, Republic of Korea. The programme is designed…
30 October 2014 | Youth
More than 80 million young people of working age in the Asia-Pacific region are unemployed and in several countries youth are as much as seven times more likely to be unemployed than adults. Lacking sufficient economic and social opportunities,…
30 October 2014 | Poverty Eradication
World Cities Day 2014 will be celebrated on 31 October in Shanghai, China, in an event hosted by Shanghai’s Municipal People’s Government. The theme for this year’s celebration is Leading Urban Transformations.
Urbanization has become an inevitable…
29 October 2014 | Youth
When Tebang Motaung, a 26 year-old South African, attended a wedding a couple of years ago, he did not know yet that he would become an entrepreneur.
“I was simply taken aback when I saw the guests passing a hand towel along the buffet line. I…
28 October 2014 | Youth
Young people around the world must “raise your voices” so they are heard loud and clear, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a packed audience of youth Ministers, experts, activists and volunteers this morning, kicking off the First…
27 October 2014 | Indigenous Peoples, | Women
The road from Sitio Gawasan, on the Philippines island of Mindanao, to the nearest district health centre is a long one. Accessible only by foot or via bumpy motorcycle ride, the journey can take up to four hours – a trip few expectant mothers from…
27 October 2014 | Indigenous Peoples, | Women
The road from Sitio Gawasan, on the Philippines island of Mindanao, to the nearest district health centre is a long one. Accessible only by foot or via bumpy motorcycle ride, the journey can take up to four hours – a trip few expectant mothers from…
27 October 2014 | Indigenous Peoples, | Women, | Youth
To present best practices from across Latin America regarding indigenous women’s rights and access to justice, country representatives from Mexico, Ecuador and Guatemala took part in a side event during the Third Committee of the 69th UN General…