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Champion young people as ‘drivers of change’, UN chief urges
- UN News
Young people must be recognized around the world as “drivers of change” and empowered to become “fully engaged in decisions affecting their future,” said Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday, World Youth Skills Day.
COVID-19 fuels slowest rate of childhood vaccination in three decades, leaving millions at risk
- UN News
Official data published by UN agencies on Friday shows the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccination rates in approximately 30 years, with 25 million infants missing out on lifesaving shots.
Achieving the SDGs in Extraordinary Times
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Jul 15 (IPS) - The start of the “Decade of Action” to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has also marked the start of an unprecedented period of overlapping crises.
Grassroots Organizing Should Dump Biden and Clear Path for a Better Nominee in 2024
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jul 15 (IPS) - Pundits are focused on Joe Biden’s tanking poll numbers, while progressives continue to be alarmed by his dismal job performance. Under the apt headline “President Biden Is Not Cutting the Mustard,” last week The American Prospect summed up: “Young people are abandoning him in droves because he won’t fight for their rights and freedom.”
Nigeria: New UN resilience project paves ‘pathway to peace and sustainable development’
- UN News
Over 500,000 conflict-affected people in northeast Nigeria will be tossed “a lifeline,” thanks to a new UN humanitarian and development package, launched on Thursday.
Hundreds of Millions of Human Workers Treated Worse than Robots
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Jul 14 (IPS) - While the world’s big private business pours billions of dollars in producing automatic machines and assuring their optimal functioning, barley no money has been invested in the hundreds of millions human workers, who are left shockingly unprotected, treated like cheap robots, or even worse.
World Faces Cascading Crises Causing Profound Suffering & Multiple Famines
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 14 (IPS) - In his opening address to the 2022 Ministerial meeting of the High-Level Political Forum on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, July 13-15.Our world is in deep trouble – and so too are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Time is running out. But there is still hope. Because we know what we need to do:
Food Security: We Are Still Going Backwards
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jul 13 (IPS) - The signs of the last few years indicate a continuous setback towards achieving food security. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO) annual report, "The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI)”, prepared together with other UN agencies and presented on July 6th leaves no doubt about the dangerous situation in which we find ourselves regarding the real possibilities of eliminating hunger and poverty by 2030, as solemnly proposed by the international community in October 2015 in New York.
Guterres hails ‘critical step forward’ on resuming Ukraine grain exports
- UN News
The UN chief on Wednesday described progress between Russia and Ukraine on allowing the resumption of grain exports during UN-brokered talks in Türkiye, as a “ray of hope to ease human suffering and alleviate hunger around the world.”
Sustainable Development Goals can be reached ‘despite our grim times’: ECOSOC President
- UN News
Despite two years of a “surreal struggle” against the COVID-19 pandemic, and amidst rising global challenges, optimism for achieving sustainable development persists, a senior UN official declared on Wednesday.
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