NEW YORK 8 October 2020 –?The global response to COVID-19 has been at US$20 trillion and growing.
LDCs
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 United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries and;
- Follow-up to the second United Nations 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 – 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 United Nations Secretary-General,?the greatest challenge?civilisation has?faced since World War Two.?
OHRLLS is joining with the United Nations’ 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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The world’s Least Developed Countries are in a race to deliver crucial global development goals by 2030.?This new decade needs to usher in a new global partnership to secure a better future for the world’s most vulnerable nations.???