More than 60 United Nations offices, agencies and operations have been ordered to submit proposals by mid-June to cut 20% of their staff ...

Mauritius deal to turn over the archipelago shores up Western influence in the Indian Ocean as China tries to increase its ...

Countries threatening Israel if it does not work with U.N. on humanitarian aid are funding a Hamas-controlled program to ...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Free Quality School Education (FQSE) Secretariat, housed within the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE), have embarked on a ...

Adopted in 2012 at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10YFP) is a global commitment to accelerate the shift ...

sustainable development,” said Li Junhua, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs. Inflation risks remain While global headline inflation eased from 5.7 per cent ...

Formed in 2013, it brings together United Nations agencies, non-governmental organizations, academia, the private sector and development banks.

When adopting the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 ... for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG).

This reverses a long-term trend that has seen a reduction in inequalities between wealthy and poor nations. Development challenges for countries with the lowest HDI scores are especially severe - ...

In low- and medium-HDI countries, 70 percent expect AI to increase their productivity, and two thirds anticipate using AI in education, health, or work within the next year, according to UNDP global ...

The choices that people have and can realize, within ever expanding freedoms, are essential to human development, whose goal is for people to live lives they value and have reason to value. A world ...

The Human Development Report, an annual publication from the UN Development Programme (UNDP), shows that inequalities ... ability to reinvent ourselves in the face of profound change.” United States, ...