Gender gap persists on road to the SDGs: UN Women

adminSeptember 7, 2023September 16, 202404 mins

The new Gender Snapshot report from the UN’s gender equality agency at this midway point towards the SDGs warns that if current trends continue, over 340 million women and girls will be living in poverty by 2030. That represents eight per cent of the female population worldwide. Close to one in four will experience moderate or…

Syrians suffer as political stalemate persists: UN Special Envoy

adminAugust 23, 2023September 15, 202406 mins

“It is deeply troubling that, for over a year, the intra-Syrian political process has been in deep freeze,” he said, speaking via videoconference. “A political process is the right of the Syrian people they are entitled to chart their own destiny.” Mr. Pedersen said Syrians both inside and outside the country continue to suffer severely…