"EMPLOYMENT"

Mutually reinforcing crises, including rising debt levels, are disproportionately affecting developing countries, worsening the global employment divide between high-income and low-income countries, and widening existing inequalities exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO). ILO

According to the UN, 339 million people will require humanitarian aid this year just to survive. Almost one third of these people live in countries subject to UN sanctions. UNIFEED

The Review Conference on the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea brings stakeholders together at the UN headquarters in New York from May 22 to 26. UNIFEED / FILE

The Representative of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Afghanistan, Fran Equiza, said that “an estimated 90 percent of Afghans are on the brink of poverty” and “children bear the brunt of it.” UNIFEED

The Eighteenth Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF18) kicked off today in New York to discuss the links between the Global Forest Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNIFEED

Around 90 per cent of adolescent girls and young women do not use the internet in low-income countries, while their male peers are twice as likely to be online, according to a new UNICEF analysis issued on International Day of Girls in ICT. UNICEF

New data indicates declining confidence in childhood vaccines of up to 44 percentage points in some countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. UNICEF

A new Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report provides a comprehensive picture of the status of women not only in agriculture, but across agrifood systems, providing extensive data about gender in agrifood systems, with particular focus on how women participate in and benefit from socio-economic opportunities. UNIFEED

Ahmed Youssef was a young student when he was forced to flee Syria in 2012. Arriving in Jordan, Ahmed struggled to continue his degree and earn a living. IFAD

The aim of this open debate is to facilitate a deeper understanding of the contribution of socioeconomic factors in promoting social cohesion, peace and stability or, conversely, in triggering conflict, including the resurgence of unconstitutional changes of government in Africa and beyond.