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Looking beyond GDP to reach the Sustainable Development Goals

·March 30, 2025·5 min read

The initiative is in line with UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s longstanding assertion that “moving beyond GDP is fundamental to building an economic system that gives value to what counts – human well-being – now and in the future, and for everyone”. While GDP has become the gold standard by which...

Conflict, hunger, poverty impede children’s early development: Türk

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·March 13, 2025·4 min read

During a discussion on early childhood development, the High Commissioner for Human Rights underscored that 80 per cent of the human brain is formed in the first three years of life, as he appealed for a reset in youth-centred policy. “Investments in early childhood are one of the smartest ways...

Guterres calls on US to exempt development and humanitarian funds from aid ‘pause’

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·January 28, 2025·1 min read

President Trump’s executive order a week ago called for all foreign aid to be re-evaluated to ensure that it complies which his new foreign policy priorities. The immediate scope of the order was not clear but on Friday, according to news reports, the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued...

World’s largest urban development forum concludes with Cairo Call to Action

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·November 10, 2024·4 min read

Ahead of the closing ceremony, UN-Habitat Executive Director, Anaclaudia Rossbach, emphasised the Forum’s timely emphasis on local action. “Over half of the world’s population now resides in urban areas,” she said, as she highlighted the pivotal role of local governments in shaping cities and human settlements. WUF12 was “a turning...

‘Historic development’ in Thailand as it moves to end statelessness for nearly 500,000 people

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·November 3, 2024·1 min read

The decision announced on Friday will benefit 335,000 longtime residents and members of officially recognized minority ethnic groups, along with approximately 142,000 of their children born in Thailand. ‘Historic development’ “This is a historic development,” said Ms. Hai Kyung Jun, UN refugee agency (UNHCR) Bureau Director for Asia and the...

Gaza: War has set Palestine’s development back nearly 70 years

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·October 22, 2024·2 min read

“Without lifting economic restrictions, enabling recovery, and investing in development, the Palestinian economy may not be able to restore pre-war levels and advance forward by relying on humanitarian aid alone,” Gaza war: Expected socioeconomic impacts on the State of Palestine, concludes, produced by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the...

Saudi Arabia promotes ‘appeasement and development’ in the Middle East and beyond

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·September 29, 2024·2 min read

Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud said the world is seeing an increase in crises, and unfortunately the international community is just looking to manage them, rather than find concrete solutions. “In this context of tensions between countries, we wish to warn against political polarization,” he said, underlining the need for...

Pact for the Future: World leaders pledge action for peace, sustainable development

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·September 23, 2024·2 min read

The Pact along with its annexes, the Global Digital Compact and the Declaration on Future Generations, was adopted by consensus, despite a last-minute proposal for an amendment by some countries, including Russia, Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Syria. The amendment sought to incorporate text calling for...

UN leads search for synergy on climate and development

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·September 7, 2024·3 min read

The Fifth Global Conference on Climate and SDG Synergy, held from 5-6 September in Rio de Janeiro, was convened as commitments on both fronts remain far off track. Moment of truth In opening remarks on Thursday, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed stressed the need for countries to act now. “We...

The price of peace and development: Paying for the UN

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·January 6, 2024·1 min read

The UN is tasked with tackling many urgent issues of global importance, from humanitarian crises to peacekeeping operations and the climate crisis. This all comes at a cost, but not as much as you might think. With the 2024 budget recently approved, we crunch the numbers....

World News in Brief: UNCTAD development finance call, Nepal quake update, religious freedom in Nicaragua

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·November 8, 2023·3 min read

That’s the message from the UN’s trade and development body UNCTAD, which called on Tuesday for urgent reform of the international financial system to support the world’s 46 Least Developed Countries. In line with the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, these most vulnerable economies urgently require foreign investment to add...

Türk blasts ‘politics of repression and division’, stresses freedom and development link

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·September 11, 2023·4 min read

Addressing the opening of the Council’s 54th session, Mr. Türk strongly condemned the “old, blunt, brutal politics of repression” as exemplified by a rise in military coups and the crushing of dissent – “in short, the fist”. Following military takeovers in Niger and Gabon, he insisted that the “unconstitutional changes...