The views of women and girls are crucial to the future of countries like Niger, which has been described as being on the cusp of “hope and despair”.
That’s according to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Margot Wallström, who was talking to UN News in Danja, a village in the west of the Sahelian country.
It’s like a mini UN General Assembly for sustainable development. Starting this week, nearly 50 countries are voluntarily briefing the world about what they’ve done to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, and looking for ideas on what more they could do.
Around one in three fish stocks is unsustainably netted, representing a “huge challenge” to all countries on the planet, according to a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released on Monday. The data indicate that on average today, people eat more than double the amount consumed in 1961.
Audun Lem, Deputy Director of the agency’s Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy and Resources Division, spoke to Daniel Johnson about the findings.
The Libyan authorities have “in principle” agreed to let the UN migration agency (IOM) take care of people rescued from the Mediterranean Sea, rather than put them in detention, the head of the organization said on Friday.
The development follows IOM Director General William Lacy Swing’s meeting with Libya’s Prime Minister, Fayez al-Sarraj.
One-in-five people around the world count on forest products for food, income and nutritional diversity – generating more than $88 billion in income, according FAO’s State of the World’s Forests 2018, launched on Friday.
Liz Scaffidi spoke by phone with FAO Forestry Director Eva Mueller about how forests are linked to many other goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
It is not impossible to address the challenges of the Lake Chad region if local people can find ways to make a sustainable living, said an African Union envoy.
Saying the linkage between poverty and radicalization was “obvious”, Bineta Diop, AU Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security, also highlighted the importance of putting women, the “backbone” of society, at the centre during a time when gender roles are changing.
Daniel Dickinson asked her how big the development challenges were in the area.
A recent report reveals poor-quality health care in all countries, which, according to a global health official, could negate the promise of universal health coverage if left unaddressed.
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has seen first-hand how the ‘nexus’ of security and climate change is affecting the lives of poor women in the Lake Chad basin area who depend on fishing for their livelihoods.
Ms. Mohammed told Daniel Dickinson why despite the challenges, she sees reason to be hopeful for women’s empowerment in the region.
Lack of understanding about human trafficking in the Pacific region contributes to the crime going undetected there, according to a UN expert.
Benjamin Smith from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) told Julia Dean why better data is needed to understand how modern-day slavery impacts these island nations.
Financial rescue packages offered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to countries facing economic meltdown, should place less emphasis on cutbacks in future in recognition that the Fund has “gone too far with austerity”, a UN Special Rapporteur has said.
Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, has been speaking after presenting his report on the IMF — as well as the United States and Ghana — to the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
