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| Social Inclusion
During the 2015 International Youth Day, Zambia’s Republican President, Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu launched the 2015 revised National Youth Policy and the first National Action Plan on Youth Empowerment and Employment. These two documents,…
| Social Inclusion
This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest…
| Poverty Eradication, | Social Inclusion
August 23 marked the annual commemoration of the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. This day serves as a reminder that the teaching, communicating, and transmitting of slave trade is important for the world…
| Poverty Eradication, | Social Inclusion
August 23 marked the annual commemoration of the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. This day serves as a reminder that the teaching, communicating, and transmitting of slave trade is important for the world…
| Cooperatives, | Social Inclusion
As economic crises, growing inequality and climate change prompt a global debate on the meaning and trajectory of development, increasing attention is focusing on 'social and solidarity economy' as a distinctive approach to sustainable and rights-…
| Cooperatives, | Social Inclusion
As economic crises, growing inequality and climate change prompt a global debate on the meaning and trajectory of development, increasing attention is focusing on 'social and solidarity economy' as a distinctive approach to sustainable and rights-…
| Poverty Eradication, | Social Inclusion
An online media campaign called #ShareHumanity was started this week to raise awareness about humanitarian crises. Many celebrities are endorsing the campaign by supporting the hashtag #ShareHumanity and sharing humanitarian stories on their social…
| Poverty Eradication, | Social Inclusion
An online media campaign called #ShareHumanity was started this week to raise awareness about humanitarian crises. Many celebrities are endorsing the campaign by supporting the hashtag #ShareHumanity and sharing humanitarian stories on their social…
| Poverty Eradication, | Social Inclusion, | Women
Violence against women and girls in the Pacific region is a serious issue that requires urgent action. Although governments have been aware of this issue after years of advocacy for women’s rights organizations and civil society organizations…
| Poverty Eradication, | Social Inclusion, | Women
Violence against women and girls in the Pacific region is a serious issue that requires urgent action. Although governments have been aware of this issue after years of advocacy for women’s rights organizations and civil society organizations…
| Poverty Eradication, | Social Inclusion, | Women
Violence against women and girls in the Pacific region is a serious issue that requires urgent action. Although governments have been aware of this issue after years of advocacy for women’s rights organizations and civil society organizations…
| Disabilities, | Poverty Eradication, | Social Inclusion
On 17 August, the head of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Maria Soledad, spoke at a meeting at the United Nations in Geneva about why the needs of people with disabilities should play a bigger role in the UN's future…