With school closures triggered by COVID-19 disrupting both education and access to nutritious meals, two UN agencies on Tuesday launched new measures to help improve the well-being of 1.9 billion school-aged children and adolescents around the world.
Rural women play a critical role in agriculture, food security and managing land and natural resources – yet many suffer from “discrimination, systemic racism, and structural poverty”, the UN chief said on Thursday
Spotlighting the role of targeted investment and innovation towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with special focus on ‘Harnessing the Potential of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the Digital Economy,’ the World Entrepreneurs Investment Forum kicked off on Tuesday in the Bahraini capital, Manama.
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Egypt has already fallen beneath the UN’s water poverty threshold of 1000 cubic meters per capita. It currently stands at 700 cubic meters per person and is likely to get worse as the population continues to expand.
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Climate change is not gender-neutral – it affects women far more