All posts tagged "United Nations"

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  World breaches 1.5C warming limit as climate deadline looms for governments

  United Nations (UN) secretary-general António Guterres has called on governments around the world to accelerate climate action after the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed that 2024 was the warmest year

  • Posted January 17, 2025
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  Reimagining humanitarian aid to meet evolving challenges

  Humanitarian crises are escalating in scale and complexity due to issues such as prolonged conflicts, the intensifying climate crisis and economic instability, leading to forced displacement, food insecurity, natural disasters

  • Posted August 5, 2024
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  UN recognises public service projects that are advancing SDGs, US procurement officials get data ‘co-pilot’: news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly news roundup of public service intelligence In this edition: UN awards recognise public service projects that are accelerating SDGs Fifteen initiatives from countries including Brazil, Germany,

  • Posted June 27, 2024
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  Better data needed to address gender inequality in education, global experts say  

  Education leaders from around the world have called for better data to advance gender equality in learning. During a session at UNESCO’s inaugural Conference on Education Data and Statistics –

  • Posted February 18, 2024
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  Trudeau nominates new head of public service commission; US reclaims first place in digital competitiveness rankings: news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Trudeau nominates new president of the Public Service Commission of Canada Canadian prime minister Justin

  • Posted December 7, 2023
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  Number of women and girls in conflict-affected countries doubles, UN report finds

  More than 600 million women and girls lived in conflict-affected countries in 2022, a 50% increase since 2017, according to the UN’s latest report on women, peace and security. One

  • Posted November 7, 2023
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  G20 and UNDP back digital public infrastructure as SDG progress stalls

  Two manual-style guides championing digital public infrastructure have been published by India’s G20 presidency in partnership with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) with the aim of helping countries to achieve

  • Posted August 29, 2023
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  UN warns governments that disaster risks are ‘out of control’ as lessons are ignored

  The United Nations has urged governments around the world to learn lessons on how to respond to disasters as it warned action to better protect people from major catastrophes had

  • Posted April 16, 2023
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  UN warns against ‘one-size-fits-all’ policy for government digital services

  Governments around the world are making progress on the provision of online services for citizens, according to a United Nations (UN) report on digital government, but a one-size-fits-all transformation policy

  • Posted October 4, 2022
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  Indian government must address ethics of artificial intelligence in education ‘as utmost priority’

  The United Nations education agency has called on the Indian government to take a host of actions to boost public trust and understanding in the use of artificial intelligence in

  • Posted September 28, 2022
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