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| Sport for Development and Peace
To mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), Laureus Sport for Good has released its latest research paper entitled 'Empowering Abilities through Sport'.The research, produced in partnership with Allianz and …
| Disabilities
The world is faced with a global education emergency of unprecedented scale. According to estimates by the World Bank, the COVID-19 pandemic, at its peak, caused more than 180 countries to mandate temporary school closures, leaving 85 percent of the…
| Disabilities
Commitments to end discrimination and eliminate all violence against women must have meaning to all those targeted by perpetrators and at risk thereof. Women and girls with disabilities rightly demand enjoyment of the full panoply of human rights to…
| Disabilities
In May 2020, the International Labour Organization (ILO)'s Global Business and Disability Network conducted two surveys – one for National Business and Disability Networks (NBDN) and one for those networks’ company members – to identify good…
| Disabilities
A coalition of seven global disability rights organisations have today called for urgent action by States and the international community to halt the catastrophic failure to protect the lives, health, and rights of persons with disabilities during…
| Sport for Development and Peace
The “United Nations Global Programme on the Security of Major Sporting Events, and Promotion of Sport and its Values as a Tool to Prevent Violent Extremism”, UNOCT convened a High-Level Meeting on the Prevention of Violent Extremism through Sports…
| Social Inclusion
“People want social and economic systems that work for everyone,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said earlier this summer. “The response to the pandemic, and to the widespread discontent that preceded it, must be based on a New Social…
| Disabilities
With the devastating impact of COVID-19, cities everywhere are facing key challenges in ensuring that the basic needs of people living in hardship are met. As cities implement actions to strengthen public services in the face of the pandemic, they…
| Poverty Eradication
The world we live in has been transformed in a manner not witnessed in recent times. The coronavirus pandemic has triggered what arguably is the worst public health crisis in a century and the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression…
| Sport for Development and Peace
The global outbreak of COVID‐19 has heavily impacted the world of sport and access to physical activity, resulting in closure of gyms, stadiums, pools, dance and fitness studios, physiotherapy centers, parks and playgrounds. It has also led to the…
| Families
The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated an unprecedented global crisis, with thousands of lives lost, millions of families affected, and with 2oo and densely populated 2ood2 paying the highest toll. Many urban settlements have reacted rapidly and…
| Poverty Eradication
World Cities Day 2020 is the seventh global celebration since the day was launched on 31 October 2014 in Shanghai, China. Under overarching theme of Better City, Better Life, the aim of the day is to focus the international community’s attention on…