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This 2025 marks a once-in-a-generation milestone for women’s rights and gender equality: 30 years since the world committed to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 15 since the creation …
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Environmental damage in Gaza harming human health, threatening long-term food, water security: UNEP
Two years of escalating conflict have caused unprecedented levels of environmental damage in the Gaza Strip, damaging its …
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Record military spending threatens global peace and development, UN warns
Following a decade-long military build-up, global military spending hit a record high in 2024, soaring by more than …
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Catalysts for change: The rising impact of national human rights institutions
In the face of democratic backsliding, shrinking civic space and complex global crises, national human rights institutions (NHRIs) …
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United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Overcoming the past: Cambodia's push for universal civil registration
8 April 2025
10 March 2025
16 February 2025
10 February 2025
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Asia-Pacific region to chart bold path for migration governance
14 December 2024
27 October 2024
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
1.1 billion people live in multidimensional poverty, nearly half live in conflict settings
14 October 2024
24 September 2024
14 September 2024
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Social protection plays a key role in countering climate change impact
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Global labour income share declines putting upward pressure on inequality
1 September 2024
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Ensuring everyone counts: working together to include stateless and displaced persons in civil registration systems
18 August 2024
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Asean celebrates a connected, resilient community on 57th anniversary
17 August 2024
International Labour Organization
More countries affirm support for ending the gender pay gap by 2030
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