"ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT"

Informal comments to the media by Abdou Abarry, Permanent Representative of Niger to the UN, Abdoulaye Mar Dieye, Special Coordinator for development in the Sahel, following the Arria formula on the launch of the Group of Friends of Women of the Sahel.

Announcing the creation of the Group of Friends of Women in the Sahel, Niger’s Ambassador Abdou Abarry said, “no society can possibly hope to prosper today in the 21st century if it systematically excludes half of its population.” UNIFEED

Press conference by Mr. Elliot Harris, UN Chief Economist and Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, along with Mr. Nazrul Islam, Officer-in-Charge, Development Research Branch, Economic Analysis and Policy Division, UN DESA and Lead Author of the World Social Report 2021; on the World Social Report 2021: Reconsidering Rural Development.

An urgent reconsideration of rural development is needed for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as the current strategies and patterns of rural development are failing to meet either the socioeconomic or the environmental Goals of this Agenda, according to a new UN report issued on Thursday. UNIFEED

Following a mandatory 10-day quarantine, the newly appointed Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for South Sudan, Nicholas Haysom met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Beatrice Wani-Noah and toured various UN facilities in capital Juba on Monday. UNMISS

Special Envoy updates Security Council on new strategy for consolidating peace, preventing conflict in Great Lakes region.

The United Nations Human Rights Council has been given a mandate to collect and preserve information and evidence of crimes related to Sri Lanka's 37-year long civil war that ended in 2009. UNTV CH

The 14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice – held in a hybrid format amid pandemic restrictions – opened in Kyoto on Sunday with calls for renewing global cooperation against crime to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and recover from the pandemic. UNIS VIENNA

Virtual Press Conference by Elliott Harris, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development and Chief Economist in the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), on a new system of natural capital accounting (SEEA EA) expected to be adopted by the 52nd session of the UN Statistical Commission, organized by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).

Participants at the ninth African Fiscal Forum discussed how Sub-Saharan African countries continue to grapple with an unprecedented health and economic crisis, and how the pandemic has jeopardized years of hard-won development gains and upended the lives of millions of people. The Forum also provided an opportunity for participants to consider the relevant fiscal reforms that are required to spur recovery in the region. IMF