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2030 agenda for sustainable development

1 January 2016 | News

In 2015, after 8 rounds of intergovernmental negotiations and with the inputs of a wide variety of stakeholders, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were launched to replace the Millennium Development goals (MDGs) starting 2016 and to guide the work of the United Nations for the next 15 years. The 2030 Agenda places people at its core and aims to achieve a rights-based sustainable development under a renewed global partnership, in which all countries participate at an equal footing. Poverty eradication and addressing inequalitie…

ECLAC Highlights Strategic Regional Action in Defining Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean

24 June 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean remains committed to providing assistance to Caribbean countries, as the region prepares a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be included in the United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda, declared today its Director, Diane Quarless. The head of the ECLAC Caribbean office opened the Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean within the Post-2015 Development Agenda in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, organized by the UN Commission, with the support of …

Trinidad and Tobago will host a Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean

22 June 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean will convene a Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the Caribbean within the post-2015 Development Agenda in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago from 24-25 June. This meeting, supported by the Caribbean Development Bank, brings together Ministers and senior policy makers in the fields of planning and development, the environment, and social affairs, to consider among the SDGs those goals that are central to the sustainable development needs of the Caribbean. Specifical…

ECLAC and UNAIDS Sign Agreement to Support the Regional Response to HIV/AIDS

24 March 2015 | News

With the goal of promoting and facilitating cooperation on matters related to the regional response to HIV/AIDS, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Latin America signed a memorandum of understanding this month in Santiago, Chile. The agreement, signed by ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, and the Regional Director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), César Núñez, states that both institutions share the commitment to promote universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support, reduce…

UN Women Calls on Global Citizens to Bring Gender Equality into Focus

22 May 2014 | News

New York - UN Women today launched a major campaign in the lead-up to the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the historic Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. A year of activities around the world will aim to mobilize governments and citizens alike to picture a world where gender equality is a reality and to join a global conversation on empowering women to empower humanity. Events will focus on achievements and gaps in gender equality and women's empowerment since 189 governments adopted the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. This visionary blueprint pa…

The International Labour Organization opens its historic 100th International Labour Conference

1 June 2011 | News

The International Labour Organization opens its historic 100th International Labour Conference in Geneva on 1 June with a call for a new era of social justice amid high global unemployment and underemployment, and public concern over the employment situation after the recent global financial crisis. The 100th session on 1-17 June will debate current and future challenges in the world of work, including: record-high unemployment rates; a global youth employment crisis; the extension of social protection coverage to the 8 in 10 persons in the world without any such protection; the role of labour…

ECLAC Launched Regional Broadband Observatory

27 May 2011 | News

Mobile broadband has been one of the fastest growing telecommunications services in Latin America and the Caribbean in recent years, thanks to its wide availability and the rise in the number of payment options and contracts for users. However, such growth has been uneven, and this results in a wide gap between the region's countries and more developed nations. According to data from the Regional Broadband Observatory (ORBA), which was launched on May 26, the percentage of the Latin American and Caribbean population who have mobile broadband services went from 0.2% in 2005 to 4.7% in 2009, whi…

Global economic crisis opens up new space for discrimination at work, ILO says

16 May 2011 | News

In the new Global Report on Equality at Work 2011, the International Labour Office (ILO) notes that in spite of continuous positive advances in anti-discrimination legislation, the global economic and social crisis has led to a higher risk of discrimination against certain groups such as migrant labour. “Economically adverse times are a breeding ground for discrimination at work and in society more broadly. We see this with the rise of populist solutions”, said ILO Director-General Juan Somavia, adding that “this threatens painstaking achievements of several decades”. The report, entitled Equa…

World Malaria Day 2011: Achieving Progress and Impact

25 April 2011 | News

In 2009, about 3.3 billion people - half of the world's population - were at risk of malaria. Every year, this leads to about 250 million malaria cases and nearly 800 thousand deaths. People living in the poorest countries are the most vulnerable. World Malaria Day - which was instituted by the World Health Assembly at its 60th session in May 2007 - is a day for recognizing the global effort to provide effective control of malaria. It is an opportunity: for countries in the affected regions to learn from each other's experiences and support each other's efforts; for new donors to join a globa…

World Health Day 2011

7 April 2011 | News

Antimicrobial resistance is not a new problem but one that is becoming more dangerous; urgent and consolidated efforts are needed to avoid regressing to the pre-antibiotic era. For World Health Day 2011, WHO is introducing a six-point policy package to combat the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Visit the WHO website of the World Health Day 2011. Visit the Pan American Health Organization websiete of the World Health Day 2011. …

Read the comic book: "Score the Goals"

24 January 2011 | News

Ten famous soccer players are the stars of the new comic book, "Score the Goals: Teaming Up to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals." Emmanuel Adebayor, Roberto Baggio, Michael Ballack, Iker Casillas, Didier Drogba, Luis Figo, Raúl, Ronaldo, Patrick Vieira, and Zinédine Zidane are shipwrecked on an island on their way to an all-star charity game. On the island, the team has to face the challenges of the eight Millennium Development Goals, before finally being rescued. The 32-page booklet was jointly produced by the UN Office on Sport for Development and Peace, UNDP, FAO, UNAIDS, the S…

UN study emphasises economic growth as a poverty reduction strategy to meet the target in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015

3 September 2010 | News

Current poverty reduction approaches that separate poverty from the broader process of economic growth and development are unlikely to succeed and could leave about 1 billion people destitute by 2015, according to a new United Nations report released today. The report by the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) explores the causes, dynamics and persistence of poverty, as well as what works and what does not in international policy and practice. The study, released as governments and international institutions focus on cutting poverty in half to meet the target in the Millenniu…

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