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05 March 2014 | Women
The 6th Annual Women’s Empowerment Principles event “Gender Equality and the Global Jobs Challenge” will take place on the 5-6th of March,2014 and will spotlight business strategies, experience and challenges on increasing and enhancing job…
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…
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…
26 February 2014 | Youth
According to a recent report from the International Labor Organization, the global unemployment in 2013 reached almost 202 million. This proves that the weak global economic recovery has failed to lead to an improvement in global labor markets.…
25 February 2014 | Youth
Agriculture is not glamorous. It suffers from entrenched negative perceptions. In the minds of many African youths, a farmer is someone like their parents, doing backbreaking labour in the fields and getting little to show for it. Nonetheless,…
19 February 2014 | Youth
The Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, in partnership with other UN entities, international NGOs, and youth groups and stakeholders, launched a crowdsourcing initiative for youth priorities in the post-2015 development agenda. The…
18 February 2014 | Indigenous Peoples, | Poverty Eradication
The Open Working Group on sustainable development goals has arrived at an important moment of transition. “Almost one productive year has passed in which we have done some deep reflection together, and now we begin crafting a proposal on…
18 February 2014 | Youth
A global initiative to empower young entrepreneurs for positive change
The Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition is an international contest launched by The Goi Peace Foundation, Stiftung Entrepreneurship (Berlin) and UNESCO.
The competition…
18 February 2014 | Indigenous Peoples, | Poverty Eradication
Higher maternal and infant mortality rates, poorer access to health services, increased vulnerability to contract HIV/AIDS and to being subjected to sexual violence and discrimination – this is part of the stark reality facing many of the world’s…
18 February 2014 | Indigenous Peoples, | Poverty Eradication
The Open Working Group on sustainable development goals has arrived at an important moment of transition. “Almost one productive year has passed in which we have done some deep reflection together, and now we begin crafting a proposal on…
18 February 2014 | Indigenous Peoples, | Poverty Eradication
Higher maternal and infant mortality rates, poorer access to health services, increased vulnerability to contract HIV/AIDS and to being subjected to sexual violence and discrimination – this is part of the stark reality facing many of the world’s…
14 February 2014 | Ageing, | Disabilities, | Youth
Employment remained a challenge for persons with disabilities in many countries, a United Nations expert told the Commission for Social Development.
Shuaib Chalklen, the Commission’s Special Rapporteur on Disability, urged Member States to…