Mandela’s legacy thrives as today’s blueprint for prisoners’ rights
Nearly 12 million people are imprisoned globally, with almost one third awaiting sentencing, at a time when prisons are overcrowded in half of all countries, according to a new UN…
Flagship UN gender event closes with ‘blueprint’ for greater role of women in tech
The priority theme for this year’s CSW, an annual, two-week long event which has been advancing rights for women since 1946, was the ongoing discrimination, abuse, and misogyny women face…
LDC5: World leaders back ‘blueprint for recovery, renewal, resilience’ in least developed countries
The Doha Political Declaration was adopted to a round of applause in the plenary hall of the Qatar National Convention Centre, where LDC5 has been under way since 5 March.…
UN ‘blueprint’ to protect least developed nations amid global slowdown
The Doha Programme of Action, as it’s formally known, has been designed as a roadmap up to 2031, to foster strengthened commitments between the least developed countries and their development…