News Archive
- Make economic stimulus packages work for women, top UN official in Asia-Pacific region says
- Released: 5 Aug 2009
- Bangkok (UN/ESCAP Information Services) -- Noeleen Heyzer, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), today urged countries to promote women’s economic interests as part of government packages aimed at dealing with the global financial crisis.
- Climate change threatens human security in the Pacific Islands
- Released: 6 Aug 2009
- A coconut washed up on a beach in Vanuatu. (Photo: Thomas Jensen/UNDP Pacific Centre) Cairns – Climate change poses an existential threat to the Pacific Island countries and may further aggravate conflicts over increasingly scarce resources, a high-level panel warned today at the Pacific Island Forum in Cairns, Australia
- Finance ministers to share and learn from experience of dealing with economic crisis
- Released: 11 Aug 2009
- Annual meeting will take place immediately prior to the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund
- The Central Bank of India has proposed a partnership with the Commonwealth Secretariat aimed at helping young people
- Released: 11 Aug 2009
- The Central Bank of India has proposed a partnership with the Commonwealth Secretariat aimed at helping young people establish and develop their small businesses
- IPC One pager: Can Low-Income Countries Adopt Counter-Cyclical Policies?
- Released: 5 Aug 2009
- Philippines Officially Enacts Legislation for Gender Equality
- Released: 14 Aug 2009
- Manila — Philippines’ President, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, signed the country's Magna Carta of Women in Manila on 14 August, formally enacting a legislation for gender equality that women’s rights groups have been lobbying for in the last seven years.
- Farmers hit by climate change and supermarket labelling schemes
- Released: 19 Aug 2009
- Kenyan farmers association chair wades into food miles debate, urging supermarkets to resist “crude” carbon labelling schemes
- Advocating for workers on Sri Lanka's tea plantations
- Released: 19 Aug 2009
- South Central Sri Lanka is home to both the breathtakingly beautiful tea plantations that have made it famous and the impoverished plantation workers who work them.
- Technological Transfer and South-South Cooperation Key to Food Security in Asia-Pacific
- Released: 25 Aug 2009
- ESCAP and China mark 30 years of partnership by focusing on food security
- Malnutrition and diarrhoea tackled at Commonwealth conference
- Released: 26 Aug 2009
- Policy-makers, practitioners and researchers study causes of child disease in Malawi Diarrhoea is one of the commonest global causes of deaths among children.
- Launch of UN World Economic and Social Survey 2009: Promoting Development, Saving the Planet
- Released: 28 Aug 2009
- BANGKOK (UN/ESCAP Information Services) -- As negotiations for a new global agreement to address climate change enter the final stages before the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference this December, the United Nations is issuing a report on 1 September that analyzes the growing demands on developing countries as threats from a warming world are added to longstanding development challenges.
