Vocational training hampered by COVID-19 pandemic
Vocational training and apprenticeship programmes have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.According to a global survey of more than 1,350 providers of Technical...
Risk Management Key to Strengthening Global Value Chains Resiliency
APEC economies have developed a strong foundation to deal with the COVID-19 crisis, but more needs to be done to enhance their resiliency in...
Putting people at the heart of energy transitions
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark will head a new high-level global commission that will examine ways to ensure people are at the centre...
COVID-19 impact exposes millions to the risk of trafficking
Although almost 50,000 victims of human trafficking were detected and reported in 2018 by 148 countries, the “hidden nature” of the crime means that...
India and the IEA enter new phase of closer collaboration
Less than four years after the International Energy Agency welcomed India as an Association country, IEA members and the Government of India today agreed...
Youth movement leads the charge worldwide for food systems transformation ahead of UN summit
Young champions from Brazil to India, Cameroon to Fiji, and more than 100 countries around the world have been engaging in public debates across...
COVID-19: Prioritize school meals in plans to reopen classrooms, UN report says
Although school feeding programmes are a lifeline for millions of boys and girls, nearly 40 billion in-school meals have been missed during the COVID-19...
Follow the science: UN plans for a stronger pandemic recovery
Funders responsible for more than $100 million of annual global research investments joined the deputy UN chief Amina Mohammed on Friday to discuss how...
EU must place social justice ‘at its core’ to lift people out of poverty
The European Union’s failure to lift 20 million people out of poverty by 2020, is “a defeat for social rights”, an independent UN human...
Consecutive drop in new COVID-19 cases ‘encouraging news’: WHO
The number of new COVID-19 cases globally has fallen for the third week in a row, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Monday,...