Results found: 102
Meetings & Events
A Promise in Peril: SDG Progress at Midpoint - SDG Media Zone at the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly
Halfway to the deadline for the 2030 Agenda, the UN SDG Progress Report; Special Edition 2023 shows we are leaving more than half the world behind. Progress on more than 50 per cent of targets of the SDGs is weak and insufficient; on 30 per cent, it has stalled or gone into reverse. These include key targets on poverty, hunger and climate. Unless we act now, the 2030 Agenda risks becoming an epitaph for a world that might have been.
Audio Languages: English, Original
A spirited discussion on the second half of the SDGs and a deep dive into Goal 2 on Food.
Audio Languages: English, Original
Meetings & Events
Food Systems Transformation: Transforming food systems for a sustainable world without hunger (SDG Action Weekend, Acceleration Day, High Impact Initiatives)
The High Impact Initiative on food systems will underscore the integrated vision advanced by the Secretary-General in the Food Systems Summit and reaffirmed in the UNFSS +2 Stocktaking Moment 2023. The HII will call attention on the nexus of multiple critical SDGs, including the eradication of poverty, climate action and environmental protection, ending hunger and improving nutrition and access to healthy diets.
Audio Languages: English
Noon Briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Audio Languages: English, Original
Media Stakeouts
Linda Thomas-Greenfield (United States) on the completion of the U.S. Presidency of the UNSC - Security Council Media Stakeout
Remarks to the media by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Representative to the United Nations, will deliver remarks from the UN Security Council stakeout on the completion of the U.S. Presidency of the UNSC.
Audio Languages: English
Press conference by Mamadou Dian Balde, UNHCR Regional Bureau Director for the East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes and Regional Refugee Coordinator for the Sudan Situation, on the needs and challenges faced by people displaced by the conflict in the region.
Audio Languages: English
Open debate in connection with "Famine and Conflict-Induced Global Food Insecurity" under the agenda item "Maintenance of International Peace and Security".
Audio Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Original
Security Council
(Continued) Maintenance of International Peace and Security - Security Council, 9392nd Meeting
(Continued) Famine and Conflict-Induced Global Food Insecurity
Audio Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Original
Comments to the media by Antony Blinken, Secretary of State of the United States of America, and President of the Security Council for the month of August, on the United States' priorities during its presidency of the UN Security Council, including ending famine and conflict-induced global food insecurity and defending human rights.
Audio Languages: English, Original
Press Conferences
Deputy Secretary-General/Travels, Niger, Democratic Republic of the Congo & other topics - Daily Press Briefing
Noon briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Audio Languages: English, Original