... in the post-COVID19 context, it adds.
India's vital UNSC agenda is "effective response to international terrorism". Diplomatic sources argue that terrorism is an enduring and critical threat to international ...
... 130 million people into extreme poverty.
The report finds the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 will be derailed unless immediate policy actions are taken, especially in favour of the ...
Viewpoint by Somar Wijayadasa*
NEW YORK (IDN) – The Socialist-Democrat Presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, ended his campaign as it lost momentum – and the coronavirus pandemic changed everything. ...
Viewpoint by Herbert Wulf*
DUISBURG, Germany (IDN) – Right now, two critical developments are literally threatening the very existence of humankind: the climate crisis and the possibility of nuclear ...
... in New York on 26 September 2019.
NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – Four years after its adoption, Agenda 2030, “Transforming Our World,” the United Nations’ (UN) most recent and most ambitious development agenda, ...
...
The work of our Group within the UN spans over five of the six General Assembly main committees and is relevant to over 80% of the UN agenda, signaling the high level of convergence of positions between ...
(Forests, desertification, land degradation & biodiversity)
... Minister Narendra Modi opened the ministerial segment calling on the international community to set up a global water action agenda as the central theme to achieve land degradation neutrality (LDN).
He ...
... race, sex, language, or religion.” She added: “Today, we also have the overarching 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development," which "guides our efforts to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure peace ...
... their successes, challenges and lessons learned at the Festival, Cristina Gallach, Spain’s High Commissioner for Agenda 2030, laid out how governments can use the SDGs as a framework for political action, ...
... UNESCAP website on January 2, 2019.
BANGKOK (IDN) – The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has set an ambitious agenda of 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 169 global targets and ...
... when the Organization celebrated the 73rd anniversary of its entry into force on October 24.
In view of the fact that universities play a vital role in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ...
... the contribution of faith-based organisations (FBOs) and local faith communities (LFCs) to the development agenda is increasingly studied and widely debated.
According to a 2009 report by the Woolf Institute, ...
By Santo D. Banerjee
NEW YORK (IDN) – Four months before Kazakhstan's eventful two-year non-permanent membership of the Security Council comes to an end, the Central Asian Republic continues to make ...
... disarmament has largely slipped off the development agenda. This is despite overwhelming evidence that excessive arms accumulation diverts needed resources from development and fuels armed conflict and ...
... of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on behalf of Albania. The report tells the journey of Albania towards the achievement of SDGs from the moment –three years ago – "when we embarked on Agenda 2030 ...
... both the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change," said Xolisa Mabhongo, Representative of the IAEA Director General to the UN and Director of the IAEA New York ...
By Rita Joshi
BONN (IDN) – In 2015, countries from around the world adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet ...
By A.L.A. Azeez
The writer is Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN in Geneva. While analysing the UN Secretary-General António Guterres' new disarmament agenda entitled, Securing ...
By Jayantha Dhanapala
The UN Secretary-General's new Disarmament Agenda entitled, Securing Our Common Future, "seems unlikely to secure our common future with the present actors," writes Jayantha Dhanapala, ...
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YOK (IDN) - In a recent interview with a French magazine, Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara revealed his vision of two more terms in office despite ...
... precarious international security landscape, combined with a deep commitment by the United Nations to disarmament, that the Secretary-General launched a new disarmament agenda “Securing Our Common Future” ...
... a content-rich agenda for the January programme of work of this vital organ of the world body which bears primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.
Umarov is Permanent ...
... die seit Januar in vollem Gange sind, Früchte zu tragen, Führungskräfte von Vereinigungen und Unternehmer für die 2030 Agenda für nachhaltige Entwicklung zu gewinnen.
Anlässlich des Lions Festiva ...
... held by the 1.8 billion young people living in the world right now. We want them to realize this potential. In 2015, the Member States of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development—a ...
... the important role that FAO representatives (FAORs) need to play to advance the transformative agenda. He pointed out three key activities: i) to liaise with Ministers of Agriculture and other relevant ...
... grievances directly and forcefully.
Aid institutions aren’t actually in the business of colonisation, though their agendas are political. We accept aid not because we are forced to, but because we have ...
... still the only organisation able to provide the world with plans of global significance. Its Agenda 2030 gives a plan for the solution of our most significant problems. It costs a fraction of military ...
... the West”. At the same time, the G20 meets regularly, with Russia as one of its members.
So, Italy has the task of inviting all those different actors, establish the agenda and planning and hosting a ...
... a flagship initiative of the African Union. The United Nations also remains committed to supporting the African Union’s ambitious Agenda 2063.
"In this context," he said, "we have decided to establish ...
... Kenya has laid out his agenda for its two-year (2021-2022) tenure a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, for a seat designated for African countries.
Kenya's agenda includes a greater role ...
... The third is the lack of progress on creating a WMDFZME, which has been on the agenda since 1974.
The ministers met again in Berlin in February 2020 and virtually in June 2020.
Meanwhile, a number ...
... the world who are already facing the dire impacts of climate change.
It is an ambitious agenda, as Mr Guterres acknowledged, but he said that radical action is needed now. The science is clear, Mr Guterres ...
... of the European agenda. No longer is there the drag of a reticent Britain always ready to slow and sometimes sabotage forward movement. This is the silver lining in the cloud of Brexit. [IDN-InDepthNews ...
... I took the lead in proposing in 1997, requesting some other Ambassadors to join me, in a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to include a specific, self-standing agenda item of the UN General Assembly ...
... nations – especially members of the Community Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) – on a constructive agenda. These areas are an integral part of the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the ...
... a weapon that could threaten a country of eight million in a single blast.
"But Mr. Netanyahu also has a second agenda," adds Sanger. “There must be no return to the previous nuclear agreement,” he declared ...
By Jamshed Baruah
GENEVA (IDN) – Nearly one-and-half years after UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched Securing Our Common Future: An Agenda for Disarmament in May 2018, a new handbook to support ...
... fiascos has only underlined the paucity of the intellectual thinking behind this agenda as well as its lack of emotional intelligence.
Cummings appears to see the British government as defined by institutionalised ...
... 23 UN Agencies to support the Government of Kenya’s development agenda and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. He is a champion for gender equality and outspoken on the prevention of ...
... loss of military who “were ambushed by some Ethiopian forces and militias inside Sudanese territory”.
Discussion on border issues between both countries was on the agenda of the Summit between Ethiopian ...
Viewpoint by P. I. Gomes*
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago (IDN) – In the Preamble of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, reference is made to what is called the 5P’s of People, Planet, Prosperity, ...
... Members to support the 1325 agenda and the preparation of Israel’s official National Action Plan.
Four: Direct involvement of civil society
Another missing element is a greater, regular, genuine and ...
... is genuinely grounded in UN Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
These are holistic, indivisible and interconnected in order to serve today’s needs and not compromise the means ...
... agenda.
One of the main DFC projects in El Salvador is the construction of a natural gas plant in Acajutla, which is owned by the U.S. energy firm Invenergy and its Salvadorian subsidiary Energía del ...
... of the international community.
But this vulnerable category of victims is still low on the country’s agenda and the children are still disadvantaged as a result. Speaking at the Ugandan government’s ...
... on BRICS, and it has happened in the past too during the Doklam crisis and subsequently also when China has tried to put its agenda on the working of the BRICS. This has been strongly opposed by Russia ...
... development and climate agendas.
The IACGB was initially formed to support the Global Bioeconomy Summit 2015 and has been maintained and extended since. It is composed of about forty high-level policy ...
... under the carpet.
In this regard, appointing a RCEP Secretary-General who will focus upon its primary agenda of developing the economies of the region but is also deeply cognizant of political undercurrents, ...
... agenda to drive development in Africa and embedded in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 9 on industrialization, infrastructure and innovation. There has also been a turnaround ...