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Fair Finance: How can the global inequality gap be narrowed?

Reducing inequality is one of the UN’s flagship goals, but the gulf between rich and poor worldwide, remains persistently high. In the first of a special two-part series on the financial sector this weekend, Hiro Mizuno, the newly-appointed UN Special Envoy on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investments, explains how the industry can help to create a fairer, more equitable world.

UNESCO supports African Union’s launch of continent-wide digital platform to monitor attacks on journalists

The launch will be presided by Cyril Ramaphosa Chairperson of the African Union and President of the Republic of South Africa Today, African media stakeholders,...

PM expresses ‘grave concerns’ over EU…

Boris Johnson has expressed his “grave concerns” over the EU’s move to impose export controls on coronavirus vaccines and impinge on the post-Brexit...

RCPL received donation of books by children fighting serious illnesses

Pictured are a dozen books donated recently to the Robeson County Public Library by grandparents of the late Carson Davis, who battled T-cell acute...

EU must place social justice ‘at its core’ to lift people out of poverty

The European Union’s failure to lift 20 million people out of poverty by 2020, is “a defeat for social rights”, an independent UN human rights expert said on Friday, urging the bloc to boldly rethink its whole socio-economic approach.

Follow the science: UN plans for a stronger pandemic recovery

Funders responsible for more than $100 million of annual global research investments joined the deputy UN chief Amina Mohammed on Friday to discuss how to unify research efforts, and use science to recover effectively from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Germany expects limited EU approval f…

Germany’s health minister said he expects the European Union’s drug regulator to authorise a coronavirus vaccine made by AstraZeneca on Friday, but it...

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) consults on changes to CRA supervisory fees

The consultation paper contains proposals which ensure that the supervisory fees charged to credit rating agencies (CRAs) reflect the costs of registration, certification and...

EU tells Google, Facebook and Twitter to extend fake news watch, COVID-19 in focus

By Foo Yun Chee2 Min Read BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission has told Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft to continue monthly reports on their...

EU ‘not fit for purpose’ to reduce poverty in Europe, says UN envoy

The European Union is “not fit for purpose” in the task of reducing poverty in Europe and Brexit risks exacerbating the problem, the UN’s...

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