NEW YORK 12 October 2020 ¨C?The?Istanbul?Programme?of Action for the Least Developed Countries?(LDCs) set an ambitious goal to see half of the LDCs graduate from the category during its period of implementation of 2011-2020.?Though that target has not
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NEW YORK 8 October 2020 ¨C?The global response to COVID-19 has been at US$20 trillion and growing.
Good Practices, Success Stories, Lessons Learned and Current Challenges in Combating?Poverty and Inequalities
On 8 October, the Second Committee took up?Item 23: Groups of countries in special situations:?
- Follow-up to the Fourth 51³Ô¹Ï Conference on the Least Developed Countries and;
- Follow-up to the second 51³Ô¹Ï Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries.
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BACKGROUND
The ministerial meeting aimed to provide strategic guidance for the?last year of?implementation of the Istanbul?Programme of Action?and articulate?the key?sustainable?development priorities of LDCs.??
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NEW YORK 17 September 2020 ¨C Reiterating their call for a global stimulus package for Least Developed Countries (LDCs),?Foreign Ministers?met?virtually?at?the General Assembly?this week to?discuss how?the COVID
The?coronavirus?pandemic is the?greatest?global health crisis?in the?world?and, in the words of the 51³Ô¹Ï Secretary-General,?the greatest challenge?civilisation has?faced since World War Two.?
OHRLLS is joining with the 51³Ô¹Ï¡¯ Food and Agriculture Organisation to present the?most recent data and analysis on hunger, food security and malnutrition in the three groups of most vulnerable countries.
This virtual session is a space for participants and the development community to learn, share and explore the measures being taken by UN Agencies, governments and the digital industry to provide resilient connectivity - through access to broadband - and its importance in current global crises like COVID-19.
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