"SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS"

Women Heads of State and Government met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High-level Week to discuss global issues in the newly created UNGA Platform of Women Leaders. UNIFEED

Speaking at the Transforming Education Summit, Executive Director of UNICEF, Catherine Russell said, “it's absolutely clear that children, especially the most marginalized children, that’s girls, that’s children with disabilities, children living in humanitarian crises, are facing a true crisis in education.” UNIFEED

The Transforming Education Summit brings together global, national and local education stakeholders and actors, offering an opportunity for inclusive, networked and effective global dialogue. UNIFEED

Opening the Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs) Moment in New York, UN Secretary-General said the meeting happens “at a critical point" in the world and urged countries to take more action. UNIFEED

Counting down to the 2022 World Cup, the State of Qatar launched the Scoring for the Goals campaign, stressing the value of football for promoting sustainable development, peace, tolerance, inclusion, and climate action. UNIFEED

Briefing reporters on the upcoming Transforming Education Summit, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said piecemeal change is “no longer an option” and stressed that the Summit offers a “once in a generation opportunity for us to radically transform education making it fit for purpose.” UNIFEED

Preventing conflict most effective way to prevent famine, senior officials stress, warning Security Council millions of people ‘are marching towards starvation’.

Multiple crises halt progress as 9 out of 10 countries fall backwards in human development, a new UN report warns. UNIFEED

Achieving full gender equality, one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), could take close to 300 years if the current rate of progress continues, according to a report published on Wednesday by UN Women and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). UNIFEED

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Somalia, James Swan, told the Security Council that Somalia is facing a humanitarian catastrophe, with some 7.8 million Somalis — nearly half of the country’s estimated population — impacted by the worst drought in at least four decades, exacerbated by climate factors. UNIFEED