"SOCIAL POLICY"

Nearly 100 days of war in Ukraine have wrought devastating consequences for children at a scale and speed not seen since World War II, UNICEF said today. Three million children inside Ukraine and over 2.2 million children in refugee-hosting countries are now in need of humanitarian assistance. Almost two out of every three children have been displaced by fighting. UNICEF

Today’s landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report removes whatever shred of doubt remained: The climate crisis is not a future threat. It is here, it is accelerating, and it will continue to affect the world in increasingly devastating ways, according to UNICEF.

In a world characterized by nationalism, power competition, and inequality “we face need for global solutions, and global solutions must be multilateral,” the President of the Club de Madrid, Danilo Türk, told journalists in New York. UNIFEED

Following the announcement of the creation of a new Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for a Just Transition, which aims to create at least 400 million jobs by 2030, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena said, “there is growing inequalities and asymmetries between the developed and developing countries in terms of vaccines, of wealth, of financing, and we are confronting a divergent recovery” from the COVID 19 pandemic. UNIFEED

High-level political forum considers findings, recommendations from regional commissions on progress, frameworks for achieving sustainable development.

High-level political forum considers findings, recommendations from regional commissions on progress, frameworks for achieving sustainable development.

Hybrid press briefing by Dr. Sania Nishtar, Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation of Pakistan to brief on the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable 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

The President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Munir Akram, said that as the COVID-19 pandemic toll rises, “the poorest countries and the poorest people in those countries have been hit hardest." He stressed that “we must ensure that this vaccine becomes available to everyone, everywhere, rich or poor, man or woman.” UNIFEED

Informal High-level Meeting of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council to commemorate the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the World Summit for Social Development (WSSD + 25).