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COVID-19 takes heavy toll on SDGs: UN report
Xinhua
07 Jul 2021, 12:55 GMT+10
UNITED NATIONS, July 6 (Xinhua) The COVID-19 pandemic has rolled back years, or even decades, of progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a UN report shows. The effects of the pandemic have reversed much of the progress made in reducing poverty, with global extreme poverty rising in 2020 for the first time since the late 1990s, according to the report released on Tuesday. Even before COVID-19, the world was not on track to achieve the goal of ending poverty by 2030. Based on current projections, the global poverty rate is expected to be 7 percent (around 600 million people) in 2030, missing the target of eradicating poverty, SDG1.
United Nations forum on Indigenous issues begins
For two weeks, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues will be held in a hybrid format due to the COVID-19 pandemic at the United Nations Headquarters in New York
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Chair of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Anne Nuorgam. (Photo courtesy of @UN4Indigenous Twitter)
For two weeks, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues will be held in a hybrid format due to the COVID-19 pandemic at the United Nations Headquarters in New York
After the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues had to postpone its 19th session due to the pandemic, the 20th session’s opening ceremony focused on the previous theme, “Peace, justice and strong institutions: the role Indigenous peoples in implementing Sustainable Development Goal 16.”
updated: Jan 15 2021, 22:48 ist
India has the largest diaspora population in the world with 18 million people from the country living outside their homeland in 2020, according to a report by the United Nations, which says the UAE, the US and Saudi Arabia host the largest number of migrants from India.
The report International Migration 2020 Highlights , by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) released on Friday, said the spatial distribution of transnational populations varies greatly and India s diaspora, the largest in the world, is distributed across a number of major countries of destination.
In 2020, 18 million persons from India were living outside their country of birth. Other countries with a large diaspora population included Mexico and Russia (11 million each), China (10 million) and Syria (8 million).
At 18 million, India has the world s largest diaspora population
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Last Updated: Jan 15, 2021, 10:31 PM IST
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A UN report said the spatial distribution of transnational populations varies greatly and India s diaspora, the largest in the world, is distributed across a number of major countries of destination.
India s large diaspora is distributed across the UAE (3.5 million), the US (2.7 million) and Saudi Arabia (2.5 million).
United Nations: India has the largest diaspora population in the world with 18 million people from the country living outside their homeland in 2020, according to a report by the United Nations, which says the UAE, the US and Saudi Arabia host the largest number of migrants from India.