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Ms. Jayathma Wickramanayake, the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth, addressing Security Council meeting Maintenance of international peace and security : Implementation of the youth, peace and security agenda. (17 July 2019)
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‘Young people care about peace’: UN Youth Envoy delivers key message to Security Council

17 July 2019
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After visiting refugee camps in Jordan, UN-backed schools in Gaza, municipalities in Kosovo and Youth Councils in Denmark, the UN’s Youth Envoy visited the Security Council on Wednesday with a simple message from the field that “young people care about peace”.

The women of Bokiat Village, Timbuktu, present fresh onions from their vegetable garden where UNICEF, with the support of Sweden, rehabilitated a manual water pump. (13 March 2019)
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Inclusion, empowerment and equality, must be ‘at the heart of our efforts’ to ensure sustainable development, says UN chief

16 July 2019
Global

The world’s people are demanding “transformative change that is fair and sustainable,” Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday, calling on government leaders to use the upcoming slate of key United Nations meetings in September to “kickstart a decade of delivery and action for people and planet.” 

While women have come a long way since the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action nearly 25 years ago, they still lag behind on virtually every Sustainable Development Goal (SDG).
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‘No hope’ global development goals can be achieved without women, says UN Assembly President

15 July 2019
Global

Without the full participation and leadership of women, “we have no hope” of realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the President of the United Nations General Assembly told gender equality leaders on Monday.

Interactive session of the 2019 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at UN Headquarter in New York,11 July 2019.
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Science is ‘key’ to pushing forward the 2030 Agenda, UN development forum told

11 July 2019

The implementation, follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was front and centre at the United Nations on Thursday as the third day of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) focused on the important role that science plays in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Children riding a bicycle in Tuvalu.
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A quarter of Pacific islanders live below ‘basic needs poverty lines’, top UN development forum hears

10 July 2019
Asia Pacific

While progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been made over the past four years, some vulnerable island States are losing momentum in the race to 2030, according to discussions at the United Nations’ annual High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) on Wednesday.

Indonesian women in Yogyakarta discuss village reconstruction during a community meeting.
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Now is the time to seize ‘unprecedented opportunity’ of the Sustainable Development Forum, says ECOSOC President

9 July 2019
Global

Nations across the world now have an “unprecedented opportunity to talk to each other and learn from each other”, Inga Rhonda King, President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ESOSOC), said on Tuesday, kicking off the annual High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in New York.

Three-month-old Monluck Saesong is among 128,000 children in Thailand who benefit from a UNICEF-promoted child support grant. (file 2016)
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Strawberries and child support; a Thai partnership

1 July 2019
Global

Mother of three, Mhee Saesong, a strawberry farmer from Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand, has always struggled alongside her husband to provide for her family. She describes how, in the past, when her two older children became sick, she was unable to afford to take them to hospital.