COVID-19 can spark new generation of social protection measures: UN chief
While COVID-19 has wiped out important development gains in mere months, with extreme poverty rising for the first time in…
Address water scarcity ‘immediately and boldly’, urges UN agriculture agency chief
More than three billion people live in agricultural areas with high levels of water shortages and scarcity, the UN agriculture…
‘Foundational and necessary change’ needed to heal post-COVID world
With the COVID-19 pandemic precipitating one of the world’s worst health, socioeconomic and humanitarian crises in over a century, the…
This World Children’s Day, ‘reimagine a better future’, for every child
The global community is marking World Children’s Day on Friday, calling for societies to “reimagine a better future” for every…
Development funding and trade transparency needed, to stop COVID-19 dividing the world
The pandemic has redefined the world economy in ways that will deepen inequality and can only be reversed if a…
Backed by space technology, Asia-Pacific countries power sustainable development
Asian and Pacific nations are increasingly leveraging space technology and geospatial information to respond to challenges on the ground, including in…
COVID disruption will ‘pale in comparison’ if world fails to act on climate change, SDGs
The fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement and the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “go hand in hand”,…
WHO’s Tedros says it is time for the world to heal, pushing back on ‘misguided nationalism’
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told Member States on Monday that efforts to tackle climate change and…
Sustainable urbanization critical to COVID-19 recovery, better quality of life
Cities will be critical for the world to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and the worst recession for decades, according…
World Cities Day: Value communities, today and for the future
Top UN officials have highlighted the “extraordinary” contributions of grassroots communities in towns and cities across the world in the…