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  1. Despite Strong Commitment, SDGs Progress Alarmingly Off Track 10 Years On—New UN Report Finds

    - Inter Press Service

    NAIROBI, Jun 24 (IPS) - Finland now ranks first in global sustainable development goals progress. Barbados is ahead globally in its commitment to UN multilateralism or cooperation among multiple nations.

  2. Less Investment, Less Aid: How FDI Shortfalls are Hurting Global Relief Efforts

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW YORK, Jun 24 (IPS) - The world is losing interest in investing in others, especially when it comes to humanitarian aid. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has slowed to critical levels, weakening emerging markets and further slowing growth across developing nations.

  3. Time to Redesign Global Development Finance

    - Inter Press Service

    SEVILLE, Spain, Jun 23 (IPS) - Can the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) be a turning point? The stakes are high. The international financial system—so important to each and every one of us—feels out of reach and resistant to change, because it is deeply entrenched in unjust power imbalances that keep it in place. We deserve better.

  4. Afghanistan’s Children in Dire Need of an ‘Acceleration in Nutrition Action’

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW YORK, Jun 23 (IPS) - Afghanistan is burdened with one of the highest rates of child wasting globally, with 3.5 million children under five years suffering from a severe form of malnutrition, leaving them dangerously underweight and unable to grow or thrive.

  5. What is financing for development?

    - UN News

    According to the United Nations, the world needs an extra $4 trillion every year to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges – ending poverty and hunger, fighting climate change, and reducing inequality.

  6. From the Global South to the stars: A new space race

    - UN News

    Once the exclusive domain of a handful of technologically advanced countries, outer space is now within the reach of emerging nations from the Global South, as costs fall and technology becomes more widely available.

  7. Women Protestors Targeted, Insulted on Georgian Anti-Government Rallies

    - Inter Press Service

    BRATISLAVA, Jun 20 (IPS) - Having attended hundreds of anti-government protests in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, Gvantsa Kalandadze is no stranger to police intimidation and violence.

  8. South Korea‘s Democracy Renewed

    - Inter Press Service

    LONDON, Jun 20 (IPS) - On a resounding 79.4 per cent turnout, South Korean voters have delivered a clear mandate for change. Lee Jae-myung of the centrist Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) decisively won the 3 June election, becoming the country’s new president after a turbulent time for South Korean democracy.

  9. Euro-visions: A Larger Global Role for the Euro?

    - Inter Press Service

    WURZBURG, Germany, Jun 20 (IPS) - In a recent speech, Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), articulated a clear desire for the euro to play a more significant role as an international currency.

  10. World News in Brief: Global investment plunges, hurricane season in Haiti, rising cholera and hunger in South Sudan

    - UN News

    Global investment fell a full 11 per cent to $1.5 trillion last year – it’s a huge blow for developing nations, the UN trade agency, UNCTAD, said on Thursday.

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