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UN body agrees framework to make globalization and trade work for billions across global south

UN body agrees framework to make globalization and trade work for billions across global south

Jul 23, 2016, at 01:42 pm

New York, July 23 (Just Earth News): The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on Friday wrapped up its fourteenth quadrennial conference, with delegations in Nairobi, Kenya reaching agreement on a framework that will guide the body's work over the next four years, largely focused on ensuring broad achievement of the new UN Sustainable Development Agenda.

World's oft-marginalized widows must be part of sustainable development agenda – UN chief

World's oft-marginalized widows must be part of sustainable development agenda – UN chief

Jun 24, 2016, at 04:55 am

New York, June 23 (Just Earth News):With nearly half the world’s 259 million widows living poverty, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged greater efforts to “make them more visible in our societies” and ensure they are a vital part of the UN Sustainable Development Agenda’s pledge to ‘leave no one behind.’