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Kuwaiti women's empowering initiative hailed

Kuwait - BNA

Kuwaiti Social Affairs and Labour Minister, Hind Al-Sabeeh, has stressed on the importance of empowering women's initiative in the private sector. In a ceremony marking global Women Empowerment Initiative, Al-Sabeeh on Monday said that such move would also reflect on Kuwait's efforts to meet Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and would encourage work environment, and women leadership capabilities and equality. TheRead more

Ministry, UNDP sign cooperation agreement

Manama - Arab Today

Youth and Sport Affairs Minister Hisham Mohammed Al Jowder and UN Resident Coordinator/ UNDP Resident Representative Amin Al Sharkawi have signed a project document to implement the King Hamad Youth Empowerment Award to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The King Hamad Youth Empowerment Award is the first of its kind in the region, aimed at strengthening the efforts ofRead more

World loses 6m under-5 children every year

Kuwait City - Arab Today

The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) on Tuesday warned that millions of children worldwide continue to live in poverty, lack access to education while suffering from chronic malnutrition and about six million die before they turn five. Focusing on child-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) established by the UN in 2000, Unicef’s report—Progress for Children: Beyond Averages: Learning from the MDGs—highlightsRead more

Kuwait reiterates commitment towards cooperation to materialize

Kuwait City - Arab Today

Kuwait is ready to shoulder its regional and international responsibility towards achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2015-30, Diplomatic Attache in Kuwait's Permanent Delegate to the UN Farah Al-Gharabally has said. Kuwait is keen on dealing seriously and effectively with the SDGs-related issues, Al-Gharabally said in a speech at UN Economic and Social Council meeting on Monday. She expounded thatRead more

Taiwan, a Valuable Partner for SDGs - True Universality

Kuwait City - Arab Today

"As we embark on this great collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind," reads the preamble to 'Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development' — the global pact that was adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September, 2015. The 2030 Agenda, which was signed by global leaders at their historicRead more

Human development indicators plunge into nosedive during dictatorship

Islamabad - Arab Today

Minister of State for Information, Broadcasting, National History and Literary Heritage Thursday said that the human development indicators plunge into a nosedive during dictatorship, whereas during the democratic era, they start showing upward trend. She said this while speaking at the three-day 20th Sustainable Development Conference held here under the auspices of SDPI. The minister said, during dictatorships foreign fundingRead more

Bahrain Press headlines

Manama - Arab Today

Below are some headlines from Bahrain's newspapers on local events: // HM King arrives in UAE to attend Abu Dhabi Louver museum inauguration. // HM King condoles on late Prince Mansur bin Muqrin. // Deputy King receives senior British defence advisor, reaffirming Bahrain's keenness on boosting cooperation with UK. // Deputy King receives Prime Minister of Jersey Island, explore cooperationRead more

New UN exhibit highlights need to fill in ‘blank spaces’ for childrelated data

New York- Arab Today

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today joined the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in launching a ‘Time Machine’ that will use data storytelling to highlight the lack of availability of statistics on children and particularly those related to child-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators. "[The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development] pledged to leave no one behind. That means focusing on theRead more

Kuwait underlines commitment to human rights

New York - Arab Today

Kuwait has underlined commitment to promoting and protecting human rights, as well as pursuing the fight against human trafficking, which would ultimately honour objectives of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Bader Al Munayyekh, Kuwait's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, said in a speech before a high-level meeting of the Global Plan of Action to Action to Combat TraffickingRead more

Deputy UN chief calls for stepped up efforts to achieve sustainable global goals

United Nations- Arab Today

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has called for picking up the pace to ensure that the 2030 deadline for the implementation of the anti-poverty Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is met. “The SDGs have jumped from the General Assembly Hall to communities across the world [and] are taking hold among policy-makers and in global public awareness,” Ms. Mohammad said atRead more