30/09/2020
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 30 2020 (IPS)* – The coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed the lives of over one million people worldwide and destabilized the global economy, also upended the UN’s ambitious socio-economic goals, including the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger by 2030.
Coral Reefs restoration at the coast of Banaire in the Caribbean. Credit: UN Environment Programme
While extreme poverty rates have fallen in past years, says Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, “it is projected that between 70 and 100 million people could be pushed into extreme poverty as a result of the pandemic”.
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30/09/2020
29 September 2020 (UN Environment)* — Our societies are intimately linked with and depend on biodiversity. Biodiversity is essential for people, including through its provision of nutritious food, clean water, medicines, and protection from extreme events.
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Biodiversity loss and the degradation of its contributions to people, jeopardize progress towards the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and human wellbeing. The evidence of these connections is clear.
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30/09/2020
(UN News)* — From domestic violence to sexual abuse, online harassment and increased child marriage, gender-based violence (GBV) is “a global scourge” that is being exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN chief said on Tuesday [29 September 2020].
UNOCHA/Alioune Ndiaye | A woman survivor of gender-based violence in Kalemie, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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30/09/2020
29 September 2020 (UN News)* — The economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic “are as bad as we feared”, the UN Secretary-General said, as he warned that the international community must act now if it is stave off a global recession, which could wipe out decades of development gains.
WFP/Hugh Rutherford | The World Food Progamme is running preventive nutrition and treatment programmes in refugee settlements in Uganda, to support families during the coronavirus pandemic.
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30/09/2020
28 September 2020 (UNCTAD)* — UNCTAD’s Economic Development in Africa Report 2020 says stopping illicit capital flight could almost cut in half the annual financing gap of $200 billion that the continent faces to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Illicit financial flows (IFFs) are movements of money and assets across borders which are illegal in source, transfer or use, according to the report entitled “Tackling illicit financial flows for sustainable development in Africa.”
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30/09/2020
(UN News)* — Israeli and Palestinian leaders, and their international partners, must urgently resume peace efforts “before it is too late”, UN Middle East envoy Nikolay Mladenov told the Security Council on Tuesday [29 September 2020], echoing the Secretary-General.
UNDP PAPP/Abed Zagout | A mosque in Gaza is cleaned to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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“We are again at a pivotal moment in the search for peace as convergence of destabilizing factors threatens to pull Israelis and Palestinians further towards a one-State reality of perpetual occupation and conflict,” he warned, speaking by videoconference from Jerusalem.
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