UN leaders urge countries to rescue Global Goals: focus on cost of living, education and climate action
Stories & Blogs UNSDG (Story )UN leaders urge countries to rescue Global Goals: focus on cost of living, education and climate action
UN Deputy Secretary-General's remarks to the 2023 ECOSOC Operational Activities for Development Segment
Stories & Blogs UNSDG (Story )Resident Coordinators are fostering more coherent, accountable and effective UN support for countries.
UN Secretary-General's Remarks to the 2023 ECOSOC Operational Activities for Development Segment
Stories & Blogs UNSDG (Story )UN Secretary-General's Remarks to the 2023 ECOSOC Operational Activities for Development Segment
18 more countries face acute food insecurity amid greater conflict, climate change and economic shocks, warn UN agencies
Stories & Blogs UNSDG (Story )“People forced from their homes, having lost their livestock and their livelihoods, desperately in need of the support that the World Food Programme is providing to keep them alive” Michael Dunford, Regional Director WFP East Africa.
Member States back UN reforms after triggering results for people and planet
Stories & Blogs UNSDG (Story )UN leaders call for urgent, predictable, and smart funding for the UN’s work on sustainable development, including the Resident Coordinator System
Remarks by ASG Oscar Fernandez-Taranco on funding the UN development system and the implementation of the Funding Compact
Stories & Blogs UNSDG (Story )First, the objective of the Funding Compact holds true. Adjusting the quantity and quality of funding does have a multiplier effect on the implementation of the SDGs.
Harmonised methods for informal cross border trade data collection critical in monitoring intra-African Trade
Stories & Blogs ECA (Story )There are no agreed methods to accurately measure cross border trade, experts said at the first physical meeting of the ...
We must counter hate speech if we want to prevent future genocides – Alice Wairimu Nderitu
Stories & Blogs Africa Renewal (Article )Ahead of 7 April, the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Ms. Alice Wairimu Nderitu, spoke to Africa Renewal’s
Prioritising Human Rights in Africa
Stories & Blogs Africa Renewal (Article )In civil wars and other conflicts, there is a need for the AU’s Peace and Security Council to integrate human rights concerns and issues into its decision-making processes.
State and community action needed to achieve racial justice
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Story )UN Human Rights issued a seminal Agenda towards transformative change for racial justice and equality that offered a way forward for States to reverse cultures of denial, dismantle systemic racism and accelerate the pace of action.