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Indigenous Peoples Benefited to a Lesser Extent from Latin American Boom
Credit:UN Photo/Patrick Bertschmann Indigenous peoples made significant social progress, experienced a reduction in poverty levels in several countries and gained improved access to basic services...
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UNDP at 50: World must step up to beat poverty by 2030
Photo: UNDPI-UNDP The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is 50! An Anniversary Ministerial Meeting will be held on 24 February 2016 to celebrate UNDP’s past, and chart a course for the future...
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A New Revamped Website on Social Policy and Development Issues
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe The UNDESA’s Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) has launched its new and improved website at: http://social.un.org or http://undesadspd.org The new website...
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Improving the Lives of Smallholder Farmers
Credit:UN Photo/Martine Perret There are an estimated 500 million smallholder households globally, amounting to upwards of two billion people. Mostly small-scale farmers cultivating less than five...
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Getting ready to implement the 2030 Agenda
Photo: UNECOSOC The 2016 ECOSOC operational activities for development segment took place on 22-24 February to examine longer-term positioning of the UN development in the context of the 2030 Agenda...
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Development Cooperation, a Powerful Lever for Integrated SDGs Implementation
Credit:UN Photo/Amanda Voisard In the year following the adoption of transformative global goals, development cooperation is attracting heightened attention. The 2030 Agenda looks set to test the...
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Autism and the 2030 Agenda: Inclusion and Neurodiversity
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Autism and other forms of disability are part of the human experience that contributes to human diversity. As such, the United Nations has emphasized the need to mainstream...
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Empowering indigenous women to achieve sustainable development
Photo: UN Webtv In line with the priority theme of this year’s Commission on the Status of Women, “Women’s empowerment and its link to sustainable development,” indigenous women have called for their...
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Leaving no one behind: Counting all people, because all of them count
Photo: UNFPA/Lorenzo Tugnoli Demographic data are fundamental to developing and assessing social and economic policies, including those focused on poverty reduction, and they provide an essential...
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The Africa We Want in 2030, 2060 and Beyond
UN Photo/Manuel Elias Aiming to raise global awareness of the synergies and complementarities between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Africa’s Agenda 2063, the Office of the Special...
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