Tag Archives: UN
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Universal eye health: the fight to save the world’s vision
The decades-long initiative to improve eye health worldwide has spawned a number of important milestones in recent years. But how far away are we from stamping out avoidable blindness for good and cutting visual impairment on a global scale?
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Corporate purpose requires a mindset shift
A business’s purpose must be core to its commercial offering, but requires company-wide transformation to deliver impact
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Christiana Figueres’ radical ideas for feeding the many
Abolishing famine and limiting climate change cannot be mutually exclusive aims says Christiana Figueres, former executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
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Supporting the human right to water
As shortages worsen, safe drinking water and affordable sanitation is recognised by the United Nations as a human right
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SDGs: financial centres take cue from UN on sustainability
Viewed as a commercially viable vehicle for generating profit as well as social good, impact investing is now being facilitated by international financial centres
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Clark fires starting gun in UN election race
The selection process for the next UN secretary-general has begun with a call to inject some transparency into a notoriously closed election
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The world leader with a mission to heal the sick and banish HIV
Executive director of UNAids Michel Sidibé tells Rowenna Davis of his hope and fears for the future, and how HIV can be an opportunity