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| 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…
| 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…
| Cooperatives
UNDESA-DSPD is currently conducting a study of cooperatives throughout the world, presently placing its focus on cooperatives in China and India.A database will be prepared showing consolidated and sector-level data on cooperatives across…
| 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…
| 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…
| Social Inclusion
1. In your book The Solution Revolution, what is the “solution revolution” and what is the “solution economy”?
The Solution Revolution refers to a burgeoning new economy where players from across the spectrum of business, government, philanthropy,…
| Disabilities
Down syndrome is a naturally occurring chromosomal arrangement that has always been a part of the human condition, exists in all regions across the globe and commonly results in variable effects on learning styles, physical characteristics or…
| 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…
| 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…
| 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…
| 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…
| 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,…