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A total of 25 Member States pledged approximately $865 million today, during a Headquarters event in support of United Nations development activities for 2013.
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The first meeting of the High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda was held at United Nations Headquarters in New York, on 25 September 2012.
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Twenty Member States pledged approximately $265 million today at an event in support of United Nations development activities for 2012. Opening the 2011 Pledging Conference, Navid Hanif, Acting Director of the Office of Economic and Social Council Support and Coordination in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, noted that the ever-deepening global economic and financial crisis was taking a heavy toll on human development and risked rolling back decades of gains.
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Governments, heads of international organizations and representatives of cooperative organizations will meet today at United Nations Headquarters to launch the International Year of Cooperatives (2012) under the theme “Cooperative Enterprises Build a Better World”.
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Representatives from 90 United Nations Member States as well as more than 50 international and civil society organizations and private sector entities will gather in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 23 to 27 October for a series of high‑profile meetings aimed at improving the global management and coordination of geospatial information and the application of geospatial technology in solving global socio‑economic challenges.
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Participants are expected to focus primarily on ways to break the cycle of poverty while protecting the environment. Such discussions are crucial because it has become clear that a sustainable future is not reachable when more than 2.6 billion people — 40 per cent of the world’s population — live in poverty and face threats to their livelihoods and survival from recurrent natural disasters and economic shocks.
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An international drive to “Scale Up Nutrition” (SUN) picked up critical support today at a high-level United Nations meeting addressed by General Assembly President Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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ISTANBUL, 13 May — Slashing by half the list of 48 States with the most extreme poverty and vulnerability to crises is the goal of a new 10-year action plan agreed by the world’s Governments at the conclusion this evening in Istanbul, Turkey, of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries.
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ISTANBUL, 12 May — As central managers of families and communities, women held the key to unlocking human development potential, but unless they were equally empowered to access financial, social and health services, and engaged — from the start — in decisions that affected their lives, least developed countries would remain powerless to unleash it, said participants in the last of six high-level thematic debates held during the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries.
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ISTANBUL, 12 May — With negotiators edging towards consensus on the outcome of the United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, speakers today used the gathering’s penultimate plenary session to press for a 10-year action plan grounded in sound policies that ensured delivery on past pledges for development assistance and brought down the barriers blocking their paths to economic growth.