by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Despite high and lasting economic growth and significant progress in reducing poverty, inequality persists in countries in the Asia and the Pacific region. The growing income and wealth disparities, including unequal opportunities in countries such as...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Nicaragua, Panama and Paraguay struggle with similar water and sanitation challenges. In Nicaragua, less than 20 per cent of people living in the northern and southern autonomous administrative regions, home to many indigenous communities, have access to...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge While child labour has declined substantially in Latin America and the Caribbean in recent years, there are still 5.7 million working girls and boys under the minimum age for employment or engaged in work that must be abolished, according to the...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge In the last 20 years, the Latin America and the Caribbean region has experienced a long cycle of economic growth and a positive transformation in its efforts to end child labour. The latest ILO global estimates on child labour, however, indicate that the...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge While the global outreach of microfinance has grown over the past 30 years, an estimated 2.7 billion people around the world do not use formal financial services. About 56 per cent of adults worldwide remain unbanked. While access to financial services,...
