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1. India Has an Ambitious Agenda as UN Security Council Member

(South Asia)

... 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 ...

Created on 02 January 2021

2. New Report Sparks Anxiety About COVID-19 Wrecking UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Agend

(Health & Well Being)

... 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 ...

Created on 20 November 2020

3. The End of Bernie Sanders' Socialist Agenda

(OPINION)

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. ...

Created on 10 April 2020

4. The G20 Should Have Nuclear Disarmament on Their Agenda

(Nuclear Weapons)

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 ...

Created on 10 January 2020

5. 2015 Agenda 2030 Off-Track

(Global Partnerships)

... 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, ...

Created on 04 October 2019

6. Palestine-Led G-77’s Work Pertinent to 80% of the UN Agenda

(The Group of 77)

...  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 ...

Created on 28 September 2019

7. India Calls for A Global Water Action Agenda to Restore Degraded Land

(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 ...

Created on 09 September 2019

8. Top UN Economic and Social Body Has a New Head with an Ambitious Agenda

(UN INSIDER)

... 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 ...

Created on 26 July 2019

9. Global Festival Looks Beyond Promises of Agenda 2030

(UN INSIDER)

... 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, ...

Created on 07 May 2019

10. Strengthening The Evidence Base To Deliver On The 2030 Agenda

(Asia-Pacific)

... 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 ...

Created on 07 January 2019

11. UN Announces 'SDG Hubs' Connecting Universities with 2030 Global Agenda ...

(United Nations)

... 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 ...

Created on 29 October 2018

12. Engaging with Faith and Faith Actors on Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development

(Asia-Pacific)

... 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, ...

Created on 10 September 2018

13. Kazakhstan Persistently Pursuing Peace and Security Agenda

(UN INSIDER)

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 ...

Created on 31 August 2018

14. Advancing Disarmament Within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 10 August 2018

15. For Albania EU Accession and Agenda 2030 Go Hand in Hand

(UN INSIDER)

... 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 ...

Created on 20 July 2018

16. UN Nuclear Watchdog Promotes Global Development Agenda

(UN INSIDER)

... 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 ...

Created on 13 July 2018

17. UN Summer Academy Brings 2030 Development Agenda To Life

(UN INSIDER)

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 ...

Created on 11 July 2018

18. A Call To 'Action Now' On United Nations Disarmament Agend

(OPINION)

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 ...

Created on 18 June 2018

19. UN Chief's Disarmament Agenda Faces Rough Water

(OPINION)

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, ...

Created on 07 June 2018

20. Ivory Coast President's Agenda 2030 Evokes Protest

(Africa)

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 ...

Created on 05 June 2018

21. New Disarmament Agenda Recognizes CTBT's Intrinsic Rol

(CTBTO)

... 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” ...

Created on 31 May 2018

22. Security Council under Kazakh Presidency has a Content-Rich Agenda for January

(UN INSIDER)

... 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 ...

Created on 03 January 2018

23. Die weltweit 'Großen Sechs‘ Werbeagenturen unterstützen die 2030 UN-Agenda

(German)

... 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 ...

Created on 23 August 2016

24. Educating Youth for Achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 30 November -0001

25. Transformation of Agri-Food Systems Crucial for FAO in 2021

(Food security, nutrition & sustainable agriculture)

... 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 ...

Created on 19 January 2021

26. Time to Dispense with the Rhetoric of Decolonisation

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 18 January 2021

27. Whither the G20 in a World of Declining Multilateralism: Part 2

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 13 January 2021

28. Whither the G20 in a World of Declining Multilateralism: Part 1

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 13 January 2021

29. UN Chief Points to Fragility and Conflict as Major Obstacles to Sustainable Development Goals

(Poverty)

... 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 ...

Created on 08 January 2021

30. The AU Peace Process to Solve the Conflict in Tigray Alleged to Have Been Undermined

(Horn of Africa)

... 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 ...

Created on 08 January 2021

31. The Nuclear Weapon States Urged to Advance Disarmament

(Nuclear Weapons)

... 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 ...

Created on 06 January 2021

32. Ending Our Suicidal War Against Nature

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 06 January 2021

33. There Is A Silver Lining in The Cloud of Brexit

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 05 January 2021

34. The Culture of Peace: For a Safer, Saner and Sustainable World

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 28 December 2020

35. Portugal: Mainstreaming Food Systems in The Presidency of The European Council

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 23 December 2020

36. Iran Joins China, Russia, EU, France, Germany and UK in Reaffirming Commitment to 'Nuclear Deal

(Nuclear Weapons)

... 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 ...

Created on 23 December 2020

37. A New Handbook on Parliamentary Action for Disarmament

(Nuclear Weapons)

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 ...

Created on 20 December 2020

38. Time to Ditch the Technocratic, Mechanical Vision of Government

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 19 December 2020

39. UN Chief Appoints an Eminent Indian National as Resident Coordinator in China

(UN INSIDER)

... 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 ...

Created on 17 December 2020

40. EEPA Report on Horn of Africa Situation on December 17

(Horn of Africa)

... 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 ...

Created on 17 December 2020

41. Breaking the Culture of Violence to Advance SDG 16 On Peace & Security

(OPINION)

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, ...

Created on 16 December 2020

42. 'If We Are Serious About Peace, We Must Take Women Seriously

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 16 December 2020

43. Pacific SIDS Champion Oceans and Blue Economy Preparing for COP 26

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 13 December 2020

44. How the U.S. Is Locking Out China from Latin America and the Caribbean

(USA and Canada)

... 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 ...

Created on 04 December 2020

45. Children Born of War Remain Invisible Victims of Sexual Violence

(Africa)

... 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 ...

Created on 02 December 2020

46. India Succeeds Russia as BRICS Chair Amid Rising Challenges

(Russia)

... 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 ...

Created on 29 November 2020

47. A Global Summit Calls for Transition to the Bioeconomy

(Food security, nutrition & sustainable agriculture)

... 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 ...

Created on 24 November 2020

48. RCEP Augurs Hope for 10 ASEAN States and Their 5 Partners

(Asia-Pacific)

... 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, ...

Created on 23 November 2020

49. COVID-19 Shatters Hopes for Industrial Advance in Africa

(Africa)

... 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 ...

Created on 21 November 2020