"UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME - UNDP"

Virtual Press Conference by Elliott Harris, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development and Chief Economist, and Leila Fourie, the Global Investors for Sustainable Development Co-chair and CEO of the Johannesburg Stock, on the outcome of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Global Investors for Sustainable Development (GISD) Alliance.

General Assembly elects 18 member States to Human Rights Council, authorizes dates of conference for establishing nuclear‑weapon‑free zone in Middle East.

“Disparities in multi-dimensional poverty across ethnic and racial groups are greater than disparities across geographical and subnational regions,” according to the UNDP global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released today, the United Nations Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at the press conference in New York. UNIFEED

Deteriorating humanitarian situation in South Sudan, rising attacks on aid workers ‘worrying’ Special Representative tells Security Council.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Asia-Pacific Director, Kanni Wignaraja told journalists in New York that Afghanistan will reach “universal poverty by middle of next year.” UNIFEED

Press Conference by Kanni Wignaraja, UNDP Asia-Pacific Director, and Abdallah Al Dardari, UNDP Resident Representative in Afghanistan, on poverty projections for Afghanistan.

“The UN has been working for the people of Afghanistan for decades,” the UN Mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA, said on Friday and its staff “will remain and do everything for the people of Afghanistan who have suffered so much.” UNIFEED

Noon briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

On a two-day mission to Haiti, the UN deputy chief said on Friday that she was struck by the resilience of the Haitian people, who had mobilized quickly to support their neighbours in the aftermath of last week’s massive earthquake and subsequent tropical storm. UNIFEED

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said “they are alarmed that the current trajectory of conflict, uncertainty, drought and the pandemic could endanger fragile development gains, including the rights of Afghan women and girls.” UNIFEED