More from UN DESA - October 2023

Top business leaders to explore private sector’s solutions for the SDG Stimulus

The Global Investors for Sustainable Development (GISD) Alliance will meet with UN Secretary-General António Guterres on 31 October for their 5th Annual Meeting. They will present transformative solutions to bridge the SDG financing gap in developing countries.

Empowering SDG actions with new tools for tracking SDG progress

During the SDG Summit, the UN DESA’s Statistics Division, partnering with Google.org, launched the UN Data Commons for the SDGs. This new platform integrates authoritative SDG data and insights from across the UN System into a publicly available tool with AI-powered search functionality and an innovative, user-friendly interface.

Fulfilling the promises of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights across generations

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was the first document to outline fundamental human rights that should be protected universally. However, the existing norms and procedures have become fragmented, and their limitations have resulted in a failure to adequately recognize and protect the human rights of older people at the international level.