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Pakistan PM says ‘all hell will break loose’ without debt relief

As Pakistan reels under unprecedented flood crisis, Shehbaz Sharif appeals for debt relief and more global aid.

Al Jazeera · Sep 23, 2022

India will do its best to promote South-South cooperation: United Nations envoy Ruchira Kamboj

Ambassador Kamboj was speaking at a joint side event hosted by UN Political and Peacebuilding and UN Development Programme on South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Peace and Development at the ‘Global South-South Development Expo’.

The Hindu · Sep 14, 2022

Decades of human progress set back by global crises, UN warns

A United Nations report published Thursday argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them Covid-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty.

Radio France Internationale · Sep 8, 2022

Fiji becomes first Pacific nation to recognise waste pickers as the world's invisible environmentalists fight to be seen

Despite playing a vital role in combating climate change and plastics pollution, waste pickers worldwide face discrimination and harassment. Now the fight is on to end the scavenger stigma.

ABC News · Aug 7, 2022

UNDP Official in Afghanistan to Asharq Al-Awsat: Taliban, ISIS Locked in Brutal War

The UNDP’s Resident Representative in Kabul, Afghanistan, Abdullah Dardari, told Asharq Al-Awsat that the political dialogue between the international body and the Taliban was constructive and making progress before the latter issued a decision to ban girls from education. Dardari noted that the Taliban is fighting a vicious and explicit…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jul 21, 2022

Farmers to get AI inputs on climate change

DiCRA latest addition to Digital Public Goods Registry: TS govt, UNDP

The Hindu · Jul 14, 2022

Indian model of SDG localisation is relevant: NITI Aayog Vice Chairperson Suman Bery

He said the achievements in India in the last six-seven years are captured and driven by the SDGs.

The Hindu · Jul 14, 2022

Inflation impact on India’s poor negligible, says FM citing UNDP report

Well-tailored programmes to ensure people don’t run the risk of slipping into poverty seem to have made an impact, she says

The Hindu · Jul 12, 2022

Ukraine war helps push 71 million into poverty due to soaring food and oil prices, UN says

The United Nations Development Programme warns the cost of living impact ‘almost without precedent in a generation’

The Independent UK · Jul 7, 2022

Inflation plunged 71 million into poverty since Ukraine war

UN Development Programme report finds surge in commodity prices hitting parts of world’s regions hard.

Al Jazeera · Jul 7, 2022