Det FN-ledede projekt for at forhindre et massivt olieudslip fra supertankeren FSO Safer ud for Yemens kyst påbegyndte i dag fjernelse af mere end 1 million tønder olie fra det gennemtærede fartøj. Overførslen af olien til erstatningstankskibet ’Yemen’ forventes at vare 19 dage.
Kigali, 18 July 2023 – No country has achieved full gender parity and fewer than 1 percent of women and girls live in a country with high women’s empowerment and a small gender gap, according to a new global report launched by UN Women and UNDP today at the Women Deliver Conference. The report provides - for the first time - a more comprehensive picture of progress in women and girl’s human develo
Hodeidah, Yemen – The UN-led project to prevent a massive oil spill from the decaying FSO Safer supertanker off Yemen’s Red Sea coast took a major step forward today when the replacement vessel Nautica sailed from Djibouti en route to the Safer site. All technical preparations and agreements have been finalized.
The Safer, which holds an estimated 1 million barrels of oil, has been at ris
New York - Over the past three years, poverty rates in poor countries have surged, with the number of additional individuals living on less than $3.65-a-day reaching 165 million by 2023 according to a new policy brief from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), titled “The Human Cost of Inaction: Poverty, Social Protection and Debt Servicing, 2020–2023”. The entirety of these additional
New York City – The latest update of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) with estimates for 110 countries was released today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford. The report demonstrates that poverty reduction is achievable. However, the lack of comprehensive data over the COVID-19
Lack of progress in the Gender Social Norms Index parallels human rights violations and is socially wasteful.
UN Operation Underway to Prevent Catastrophic Oil Spill in Red Sea. Salvage vessel arrived today at site of decaying supertanker off Yemen’s Ras Issa peninsula to prepare for removal of more than 1 million barrels of oil. Funding still urgently required to complete the operation.
Rotterdam – In the latest critical step towards preventing a massive oil spill off Yemen’s Red Sea coast, the global leading maritime services company Boskalis’s support vessel Ndeavor will sail en route to the Red Sea in the coming hours.
On Wednesday, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) finalized the contract for the Boskalis subsidiary SMIT Salvage to transfer the million barrels
Kabul, April 18, 2023 – A new study of Afghanistan’s economy demonstrates that without continuity for girls’ education and women’s ability to work, prospects for the country’s recovery will remain grim.
The study, “Afghanistan Socio-Economic Outlook 2023”, released today in Kabul by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), details how Afghanistan’s economic output collapsed by 20.7 per
New York, 7. februar 2023 — Håb om at få arbejde og løn er den førende faktor, der driver folk til at tilslutte sig hurtigt voksende voldelige ekstremistiske grupper i Afrika syd for Sahara, ifølge FN's Udviklingsprogram (UNDP) rapport ”Journey to Extremism in Africa: Pathways for Recruitment and Disengagement”, der blev lanceret i dag.
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Urgent action needed for those pushed from homes due to climate, conflict and crisis.
Greater emphasis on just transition needed to unlock opportunities and avoid increasing inequality and less competitive economies.
UNDP er FN’s førende udviklingsorganisation i kampen mod fattigdom, ulighed og klimaforandringer. I samarbejde med vores brede netværk af eksperter og partnere i 170 lande hjælper vi nationer med at levere sammenhængende og bæredygtige udviklingsløsninger for mennesker og planeten.
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