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International Women’s Day, 2023 - Five Sharp Questions on Female Empowerment
- Inter Press Service
NORMA, Italy, Mar 07 (IPS) - The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. International Women's Day is right around the corner and it presents an obvious opportunity to dig into what female and empowerment means for different people.
LDC5: UN conference weighs building resilient agrifood systems in the face of risk and uncertainty
- UN News
Government leaders and experts attending the Fifth UN Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDC5) and weighing the main challenges facing the world’s most vulnerable countries, have called for the LDCs to be supported through, among others, promoting agricultural investment and using modern technologies to achieve food security.
Close gaps to drive progress for next generations, youth delegates tell LDC5
- UN News
Dozens of youth delegates, representing some 226 million young people from 46 least developed countries (LDCs), took centre stage on Tuesday at a United Nations conference under way in Doha, Qatar, to spotlight a range of development issues affecting them and their vulnerable countries.
Digital Gender Gap in Latin America Reflects Discrimination Against Women
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Mar 07 (IPS) - "The digital gender gap is multifactorial in Latin America and as long as countries fail to address discrimination against women, inequality will be reflected in the digital space, excluding them from access to opportunities and enjoyment of their rights.
Nigerias Unbanked, Poor Get Reprieve After Court Rules Naira Deadline Unconstitutional
- Inter Press Service
ABUJA, Mar 06 (IPS) - Nigerians confronted by hardships over the scarcity of the newly redesigned naira notes in conjunction with the country's cashless policy introduced by the apex bank have had a last-minute reprieve from a policy that had disrupted their lives and exacerbated hunger.
Jobs and pay for women, barely improved in 20 years: UN labour agency
- UN News
In a new blow for equality in the 21st century workplace, UN labour experts said on Monday that women’s access to jobs, their employment conditions and a persistent pay gap, have barely improved worldwide in nearly two decades.
LDC5: UN conference calls for more inclusive and fair digital transformation in world’s least developed countries
- UN News
A United Nations conference under way in Doha, Qatar, has turned its attention to one of the world’s most nettlesome global challenges: closing the staggeringly wide digital divide between rich and poor nations. Fresh attention to this issue comes as a just-launched UN report finds that two-thirds of the population of the least developed countries (LDCs) is still offline.
No more excuses; Guterres calls for ‘revolution of support’ to aid world’s least developed countries
- UN News
World leaders are gathered in Doha, Qatar, for a major UN conference seeking to accelerate sustainable development where international assistance is most needed to unlock the full potential of the world’s most vulnerable countries and help put them on the path towards prosperity.
Changing lives in The Gambia: A UN Resident Coordinator Blog
- UN News
Seraphine Wakana, the UN Resident Coordinator in The Gambia, is coming to the end of her mandate. In this blog, she reflects on her experience over the last five years, which have seen the country emerge from a long period of authoritarian rule.
‘The time has come to do justice for the least developed countries,’ says UN chief Guterres
- UN News
Ahead of a major United Nations conference on the world’s most vulnerable countries, Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday urged the international community – particularly wealthy nations – to step up and help the more than 1.1 billion people in these countries break out of “vicious cycles” and lift themselves out of poverty.
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