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Don’t Move Resources from Development to Security, Warns UN Chief
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 17 (IPS) - Twenty years ago, when I was starting my functions as Prime Minister of Portugal, the world was surfing a wave of optimism. The Cold War had ended, technological prosperity was in full swing, the internet was spreading and there was the idea that globalisation would not only increase global wealth, but that it would trickle down and would benefit everybody in our planet.
How to Achieve Universal Goals, Strategically
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 17 (IPS) - Discussion around the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a list of 17 goals listed by the UN, was all the buzz in the conference rooms of UN headquarters this week.
Not Just Numbers: Migrants Tell Their Stories
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jul 17 (IPS) - Every single day, print and online media and TV broadcasters show images and footage of migrants and refugees adrift, salvage teams rescuing their corpses--alive or dead, from fragile boats that are often deliberately sunk by human traffickers near the coasts of a given country. Their dramas are counted –and told-- quasi exclusively in cold figures.
Civil Society on SDG Engagement: “We Are Not Guests”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 17 (IPS) - Showing up in record numbers, civil society groups are urging greater inclusion and accountability in sustainable development processes at a UN high level meeting.
Digitizing Family Planning: The Way of the Future
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Jul 17 (IPS) - Online shopping may have its pros and cons, but when it comes to buying products that have an invisible morality tag, it's the safest possible option, believes Franklin Paul.
Extreme Weather Wiping Out Hard-Won GDP Gains in Hours
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Jul 14 (IPS) - With Antigua and Barbuda joining St. Kitts and Nevis as the two eastern Caribbean nations to attain middle-income country status, a senior diplomat has identified climate change as a major factor preventing other nations in the grouping from attaining a similar status.
The Arab Youth Bulge and the Parliamentarians
- Inter Press Service
ROME/AMMAN, Jul 13 (IPS) - More than ever before, the Arab region now registers an unprecedented youth population growth while facing huge challenges such as extremely high unemployment rates --more than half of all regional jobless population--, and inadequate education and health provision, in particular among young women.
Reforming the International Financial System
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 13 (IPS) - When we fail to act on lessons from a crisis, we risk exposing ourselves to another one. The 1997-¬1998 East Asian crises provided major lessons for international financial reform. Two decades later, we appear not to have done much about them. The way the West first responded to the 2008 global financial crisis should have reminded us to do more. But besides accumulating more reserves, Southeast Asia has not done much else.
2 Billion People Don’t Have Access To Clean Water, Opens up Fissures of Inequality
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 13 (IPS) - More than two billion people lack access to clean and safe drinking water, according to a new report released by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
We Have to Reclaim the Public Policy Space for SDGs
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Jul 13 (IPS) - At the High-Level Political Forum which currently takes place at the United Nations in New York several events, for instance a SDG Business Forum, are devoted to the critical role of business and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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