C40 Cities Finance Facility wins UN Global Climate Action Award

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Prestigious award recognises the C40 Cities Finance Facility’s innovative approach to addressing the cities’ climate finance gaps and urban finance gap

Youth at Heart Virtual Forum 2020: ILO's session on decent jobs for youth

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The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has set up the Youth at Heart virtual forum to address the issues affecting youth around the world. This session will feature an interactive conversation with young people about solutions, including youth-led, to the challenges posed by COVID-19 on themselves and their peers.

Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development (SWESD)-RIMINI, ITALY, 8-11 NOVEMBER

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The IASSW and ICSW are coming together in RIMINI, ITALY for the 2020 JOINT WORLD CONFERENCE - 28TH JUNE TO 1ST OF JULY NOVEMBER 8TH TO 11TH, 2020 with the support of the Italian team which include: Assnas (National Association of Social Workers), Fondazione Assistenti Sociali (Social Work Foundation), Sociss (Italian Society of Social Work) and Figli del Mondo (social enterprise).

4th South-East Asia Forum on Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals

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The South-East Asia Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (Subregional SDG Forum) is being organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and partners from within and outside the United Nations system.

Asia-Pacific Business Forum 2020 to spotlight innovative business solutions for building back better

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Some 500 multi-stakeholders, in particular governments, businesses, civil society and academics from across the region are expected to participate in the Asia-Pacific Business Forum 2020 to foster public-private dialogue and identify innovative solutions and opportunities to address the current challenges faced by businesses – particularly SMEs.

Japan will become carbon neutral by 2050

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The new PM of Japan, Yoshihide Suga, announced today in the parliament that Japan will be carbon neutral by 2050. Read the story from The Guardian.

World Health Summit 2020, (Berlin)

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The World Health Summit promotes a science-driven and broad approach to global health development with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at its core. Our key issues are therefore interdisciplinary, sciencebased, cross-sectoral, and concerted. They are vital to set the global health agenda for the years to come. Because health is more than medicine and health is a human right.

Global Estimate of Children in Monetary Poverty : An Update (World Bank and Unicef)

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This note builds on previous collaboration between the World Bank Group and UNICEF to estimate the global extent of child poverty. We estimate that in 2017, 17.5 percent of children in the world (or 356 million) younger than 18 years lived on less than 1.90 Dollars PPP per day, as opposed to 7.9 percent of adults ages 18 and above.

Sakharov Prize 2020 The democratic opposition in Belarus

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The Parliament's 2020 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought will be awarded to the democratic opposition in Belarus

Freedom on the Net 2020: The Pandemic's Digital Shadow

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The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a dramatic decline in global internet freedom, contributing to a broader crisis for democracy worldwide.

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