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UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed addressing the UN World Data Forum on 22 October 2018. Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Many deaths can be avoided with better data: UN deputy chief

22 October 2018
Global

Speaking at the opening session of the UN World Data Forum on Monday, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed highlighted the life-saving impact that data can have, noting that better data and forecasting could have averted many deaths from natural disasters.

A woman walks with her child in Niger. 2018.
UNFPA/Ollivier Girard

World population set to grow another 2.2 billion by 2050: UN survey

17 October 2018
Global

The world’s population is set to grow by 2.2 billion between now and 2050, the UN said on Wednesday, and more than half of that growth - 1.3 billion - is likely to be in sub-Saharan Africa, where women’s rights are hampered by limited access to healthcare and education, along with “entrenched gender discrimination”.

The Port of Salvador on All Saints Bay, Bahia, Brazil. As one of the bigger, emerging economies reliant on commodity exports, Brazil can expect some economic improvement, according to a United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report.
World Bank/Mariana Ceratti

Overseas investment falling, developing countries largely unscathed: UN trade agency

15 October 2018

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has dropped 40 per cent year-on-year so far, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said on Monday, but the $470 million decline is happening mainly in wealthy, industrialized nations, especially in North America and Western Europe.

View of damaged cars and houses at Balaroa National Park, West Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia after the earthquake and tsunami that struck there on September 28, 2018.
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Disasters: UN report shows climate change causing ‘dramatic rise’ in economic losses

10 October 2018

Climate-related and geophysical disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis have killed 1.3 million people over the last 20 years and left a further 4.4 billion injured, homeless or in need of emergency assistance, UN experts said on Wednesday.

04 JULY 2018, PAMPANGA, PHILIPPINES - A team of experts from the Department of Agricultire work together with Food and Agriculture Organization for the United Nations in using drones in gathering visual data on recently damaged rice crops in Magalang town in Pampanga province.
©FAO/Veejay Villafranca

Cutting-edge tech a ‘double-edged sword for developing countries’: UN report

8 October 2018

The latest technological advances, from artificial intelligence to electric cars, can be a “double-edged sword”, says the latest UN World Economic and Social Survey (WESS 2018), released on Monday.

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres (c) at the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention on 2 October 2018. New Delhi, India.
UN India/Vishal Singh

UN chief commends India’s progress towards Sustainable Development Goals

2 October 2018
Asia Pacific

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday praised India’s progress on implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular the pursuit of Sanitation for All and Affordable and Clean Energy, which featured heavily during day-two of his official visit to the country.