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Thematic Areas
| Ageing
The United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030) is an opportunity to bring together governments, civil society, international agencies, professionals, academia, the media, and the private sector for ten years of concerted, catalytic and…
| Disabilities
“These rights touch on every aspect of life: the right to go to school, to live in one’s community, to access health care, to start a family, to engage in political participation, to be able to play sport, to travel – and to have decent work,” UN…
| Poverty Eradication
The European Commission remains committed to the 2030 Agenda. Under the leadership of President von der Leyen, the Commission has presented an ambitious policy programme to deliver on sustainability in the EU and beyond.
The Sustainable Development…
| Disabilities
One billion people – 15 per cent of the world’s population – currently have a disability, and 80 per cent of them live in developing countries. People with disabilities face significant challenges, including negative attitudes, stigma,…
| Disabilities
The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues estimates that there are more than 370 million indigenous peoples around the world. Complementing this data, indigenous women’s organizations estimate that approximately 50 percent—roughly 185…
| 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…