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| Poverty Eradication
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and exacerbated the social protection gap between countries with high and low income levels.
Despite the unprecedented worldwide expansion of social protection during the COVID-19 crisis, more than 4 billion…
| Poverty Eradication
The COVID-19 pandemic is a stark reminder that poverty isn’t just about income. Within and across countries, poor and marginalized communities are disproportionately affected by the pandemic in terms of infection rates, economic losses and access to…
| Youth
Although the march was initially organized by Fridays for Future, the youth-driven movement inspired by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, people of all ages gathered at George Square to demand climate action.
From small children waving their…
| Sport for Development and Peace
To celebrate the launch of the Social and Human Science Sector’s new sport-based flagship, Fit for Life, UNESCO is organizing a photo contest to promote equality, empowerment and inclusion through sport.
Fit for Life will unite private…
| Indigenous Peoples
Mother Nature, or “Pachamama”, as they say in Latin America, took centre stage as the pivotal UN climate conference reached the halfway point.
Nature is critical to our survival: it provides the oxygen we need to breathe, regulates weather patterns…
| Poverty Eradication
With the official opening of the two-week conference coming hours after preliminary climate talks among world leaders at the G20 summit in Rome saw meager forward movement, and the release of a key report from the UN weather agency, WMO,…
| Families
From the early days of the pandemic, cities have been on the frontline of COVID-19. The spread of the virus globally through travel, trade and mobility meant that a large number of the first detected infections appeared in urban areas, prompting…
| Cooperatives
The eleventh edition of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Social Economy Forum 2021 started with an online event on 19th October. It counted with speakers from the region of Veneto in Italy, the Division for Social Inclusion Development in the Department of…
| Sport for Development and Peace
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed an increasingly connected world that is recognizing the vital importance of physical activity (PA) for mental and physical health. It has exposed vulnerabilities and inequities in opportunities
for communities and…
| Sport for Development and Peace
Governments, NGOs and governing bodies back new global campaign to reshape sport and development in response to COVID-19.
The first partners behind a new global movement to champion and sustain the sport for development sector have been announced…
| Indigenous Peoples
For almost 30 years, Brazilian activist Joenia Wapixana, has been fighting for indigenous land rights and against “institutionalized discrimination” in Brazil. In a special …
| Social Inclusion
The International Labor Organization has published the 2021-2022 World Social Protection Report, which details the effects of COVID-19 on not just people’s health but instabilities in employment and income.
The pandemic has only revealed the…