11/07/2019
There are vast inequalities across countries, and among the poorer segments of societies, says a new UN report published on Thursday 11 July 2019.
World Bank/Yosef Hadar | A woman from a low-income neighbourhood in Brazil, photographed at her window. The 2019 Multidimensional Poverty Index shows vast inequalities within countries.
The 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) from the UN Development Programme (UNDP), shows that, in the 101 countries studied – 31 low income, 68 middle income and 2 high income – 1.3 billion people are “multidimensionally poor” (which means that poverty is defined not simply by income, but by a number of indicators, including poor health, poor quality of work and the threat of violence).
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11/07/2019
“Trauma from terrorism” hurts families, communities and destabilizes entire regions, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on 10 July 2019, as he expressed solidarity with victims of extremist attacks in Africa.
UNEP/Duncan Moore | Secretary-General António Guterres visits a Training Centre in Kamakunji, Kenya, and talked to youth about countering violent extremism, and preventing radicalization. (9 July 2019)
Speaking in Nairobi at the opening of a conference on counter-terrorism, Mr. Guterres recalled how attackers had laid siege to a hotel complex in the capital in January, killing 21 people.
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11/07/2019
By UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Population Day*
11 July 2019 (UNFPA)* — Women have a right to make their own decisions about whether, when and how often to become pregnant. That right was reaffirmed in 1994 in Cairo at the landmark International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), where 179 governments agreed that sexual and reproductive health is the foundation for sustainable development.
Dr. Natalia Kanem
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11/07/2019
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 10 July 2019 (UNFPA)* – Twenty-five years ago, at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, 179 governments adopted a visionary Programme of Action that aimed to safeguard the health and rights of women and girls and to promote their empowerment.
Twenty-five years ago, 179 governments adopted a visionary Programme of Action that aimed to safeguard the health and rights of women and girls and to promote their empowerment. © UNFPA Morocco
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11/07/2019
As UN Secretary-General António Guterres arrives in the southern African nation of Mozambique on Thursday 10 July 2019 for a two-day visit, he will be surveying the damage wrought by the deadly back-to-back cyclones earlier this year. UN News reports from the ground, on some of the extraordinary stories of loss, courage, survival and recovery, that have defined the months since then.
OCHA/Saviano Abreu | Macomia district, in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, has been hard-hit by Cyclone Kenneth, which made landfall on 25 April.
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11/07/2019
While progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been made over the past four years, some vulnerable island States are losing momentum in the race to 2030, according to discussions at the United Nations’ annual High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) on 10 July 2019.
UNDP/Silke Von Brockhausen | Children riding a bicycle in Tuvalu.
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11/07/2019
Starving, enslaving, raping, torturing and killing our children
10 June 2019 (Wall Street International)* — In a recent article titled Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts, I pointed out four conflict configurations that are paid little attention by conflict theorists.
In this article, I would like to discuss a fifth conflict configuration that is effectively ignored by conflict theorists (and virtually everyone else).
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11/07/2019
Corruption disproportionately affects the poor and young
11 July 2019 (Transparency International)* — The tenth edition of Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) – Africa, released on African Anti-Corruption Day by Transparency International in partnership with Afrobarometer, reveals that more than half of all citizens surveyed in 35 African countries think corruption is getting worse in their country.
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