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
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.’