The Commission on Population and Development concluded its 2024 annual session today, highlighting its main outcome — the adoption on 29 April of a political declaration to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the landmark Programme of Action on Population and Development.
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Highlighting progress in gender equality, life expectancy and access to reproductive and health services since the landmark 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, speakers renewed calls for greater efforts to uphold the rights of all to health, education and jobs, as the Commission on Population and Development opened its annual session today.
The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues met today to approve the programme for its twenty-fourth session and close its twenty-third session.
The Economic and Social Council’s Financing for Development Forum to review the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and other financing for development outcomes, as well as the means of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), concluded its session today.
The Economic and Social Council’s Financing for Development Forum to review the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and other financing for development outcomes, as well as the means of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), continued its session today, meeting for a third day.
The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues continued its twenty-third session today, during which it discussed future efforts to implement the provisions of the outcome document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and emerging issues.
The Economic and Social Council’s Financing for Development Forum to review the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and other financing for development outcomes, as well as the means of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), entered a second day.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Climate Promise 2025 Launch, held in the Economic and Social Council chamber in New York today:
The Economic and Social Council’s Financing for Development Forum today began its review of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and other financing for development outcomes, as well as the means of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks [all English] at the 2024 Economic and Social Council Forum on Financing for Development Follow-up, in New York today: