[PDFlist] [PDF-members] ‘Urgency to act’ for sustainable development, greater than ever as coronavirus pandemic continues

Wed May 13 14:20:54 MDT 2020

Bula Vinaka Solo,

Thank you for mail.

I truly believe there will be no gòd times.
Solidarity during this time means One World Order for me.

A global agreement to build back better will lead to one world order.

The Lord is soon to return. This is one thing I know and all these
happenings are just the beginning of the worst things to come.

Good day to you and all at PDF.

Mere

On Tue, 12 May 2020, 1:12 PM Soloveni Vitoso, <infor at pacificdisability.org>
wrote:

> *‘Urgency to act’ for sustainable development, greater than ever as
> coronavirus pandemic continues*
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> NEW YORK, 12 MAY 2020 (UN NEWS CENTRE)
> <https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/05/1063742> --- As COVID-19 upends
> lives and livelihoods across the planet, the UN on Monday held a
> wide-ranging policy discussion stressing a range of multilateral solutions
> to ease the pandemic, while also getting back on track towards achieving
> the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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> “Our commitment to achieving the SDGs has not changed, but the urgency to
> act has”, said Mona Juul, President of the Economic and Social Council
> (ECOSOC), as discussion over the topic, “Joining Forces: Effective Policy
> Solutions for Covid-19 Response”, got underway online.
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> She maintained that while working towards breakthroughs that will help the
> world overcome the health emergency, including a vaccine, “we are only
> beginning to realize the true scale of the social and economic crisis that
> lies ahead of us”.
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> Nearly half the global workforce is in immediate danger of being
> unemployed, while other global goals are being reversed, such as the
> increase in global poverty for the first time since 1998, with some regions
> slipping back to levels last seen 30 years ago.
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> Malaria mortality levels threaten to revert to those of 20 years ago and
> violence against women and girls “has become a shadow pandemic, with the
> number of victims increasing to the hundreds of millions worldwide’, she
> bemoaned.
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> “These are incomprehensible setbacks to our hard-won development gains”,
> stressed the ECOSOC chief, but “we must ask ourselves: how can we find
> solid footing in the new evolving normal?”
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> *‘Build back better’ *
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> And although this virus impacts everyone, it has not been an equaliser,
> but instead has exposed and compounded inequalities in societies.
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> “These disparities should be our catalyst, and our call to build back
> better”, she said, maintaining that national responses be shaped by human
> rights and that country-specific global action take special situations into
> account.
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> Juul maintained that the pandemic has “put a spotlight on the need to
> strengthen multilateral cooperation, governance, and above, all global
> solidarity”.
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> Noting that “we are currently tossing and turning through dangerous
> waters”, the ECOSOC president pointed to the SDGs as “our chart to see us
> through the storm”.
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> “Now is truly the time to fulfil our promise of leaving no one behind”,
> she concluded.
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> *SDGs ‘clear compass’  *
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> Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed told the meeting that lives and
> livelihoods everywhere depend on the UN’s ability to support Governments in
> tackling this “unprecedented health, humanitarian and socio-economic
> crisis”.
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> Calling the SDGs “a clear compass” to direct us, she cited the 2030
> Agenda, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Addis Ababa Action
> Agenda on Financing for Development, as the world’s chart.
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> “We will need to keep in mind dual imperatives: to respond urgently to
> stem the impact of the pandemic, while helping Governments and people
> respond in a way that recovers better, more resilient, future”, flagged the
> deputy UN chief.
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> And while we are all in this together, she underscored the “immediate
> priority” of addressing the needs of the most vulnerable countries and
> communities who risk being left behind.
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> When allocating resources close attention will be paid to the needs of
> conflict- and disaster-affected countries, least developed countries,
> landlocked developing countries and Small Island developing States,
> according to Mohammed.
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>
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> *Emerging stronger *
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> Turning to the UN’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund to catalyse joint
> action on the ground for the most vulnerable countries and communities,
> Mohammed spelled out: “We estimated billions and are receiving millions”.
>
>
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> In closing, she offered the UN’s “full commitment” in supporting
> Governments and ensuring that “lives are saved, livelihoods are restored,
> financial resources are mobilised, and that the global economy and the
> people we serve can emerge stronger from this crisis”.
>
>
>
> *Other key voices *
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>
>
> Describing the coronavirus pandemic as “a human crisis of historic
> magnitude”, Liu Zhenmin, who heads the UN Department of Economic and Social
> Affairs (DESA) said it had “destabilised global economic growth” and led
> the world into a major global recession that threatens all the SDGs.
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> The DESA chief stressed the need to build on lessons learned throughout
> the crisis to accelerate progress during the Decade of Action and delivery
> for sustainable development” and to turn the tide against inequality.
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>
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> The Director of the Internatioal Labour Organisation (ILO), Guy Ryder,
> maintained that an effective response to COVID19, which protects the most
> vulnerable first, requires global solidarity and multilateral action, with
> international coordination on health, social and economic policy.
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>
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> Meanwhile, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet
> maintained that human rights were at the core of the COVID-19 crisis and
> encouraged vocal support to step up efforts to leave no one behind.
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>
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> Qu Dongyu, Head of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) emphasised
> the impact of that the pandemic is having on food security and nutrition,
> pushing for effective policy solutions for the global pandemic response.
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> The Executive Secretary for the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia
> and the Pacific (ESCAP), Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, encouraged a
> coordinated and coherent global response to the adverse social, economic
> and financial impact of the pandemic.
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>
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> And Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom
> Ghebreyesus, also weighed into the discussion: “There can be no going back
> to business as usual”, he spelled out.
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> https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/05/1063742
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> Thanks,
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> Solo
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> Soloveni Vitoso
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