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Business, Human Rights and Conflict Affected Regions: Towards Heightened Action Format Distinguished participants, colleagues, and friends, Warm welcome to all. Please allow me to begin by thanking our keynote speaker, Professor Anita Ramasastry of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, as well as our discussants for joining us to chart the next steps on the relationship between Business, Human Rights and Conflict. Businesses can play a large role during security crises and in their aftermath. While they can make positive contributions and be engines of peace and development, they...
English News and Press Release on World about Protection and Human Rights; published on 15 Mar 2021 by UNDP
Date Time UNDP launches Gender and Crisis Engagement Facility New York, 9 March 2021 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced the establishment of a new facility designed to strengthen women’s leadership and participation in crisis contexts. The Gender and Crisis Engagement Facility, launched on International Women’s Day, will support country, regional and global teams to drive forward transformational change in crisis contexts. Through targeted initiatives, UNDP will demonstrate new ways of working that better respond to the diverse needs of women and girls, and ...
New York: With over 2.6 million dead and 117 million infections, no country in the world has remained untouched by COVID-19. Yet one year on from the declaration of the pandemic by the World Health Organization, evidence shows that crisis-affected countries have been especially hard-hit by the secondary impacts of the crisis, including rising poverty rates, a rise in domestic and other forms of violence and an erosion of trust between citizens and state. In response, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and group of g7+ countries have today called for greater international support t...