Hello Wikiprogress followers and welcome to
this Week in Review! This week’s highlights include a UN report on human
rights in the context of the post-2015 agenda, an update from UNICEF on global
progress on sanitation and drinking water and an Oxfam report on risk and
poverty reduction.
Released this week, the UN’s Who
will be Accountable? – Human Rights and the Post-2015 Development Agenda – calls on
countries to ensure that the post-2015 development agenda focuses on equality,
social protection and accountability, noting that one billion people around the
world are still living in poverty.
“The rise of inequality has severely undermined the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs,” UN Spokesman, 21st May 2013
The “OECD E-Government Review of Egypt” assesses
Egyptian e-government policies and implementation, and makes recommendations
for future actions. The report highlights Egypt’s progress and proposes that to
enhance the use of ICTs in the public sector Egypt should undertake a number
of measures. Find out more!
No Accident - Resilience and the Inequality of Risk – This report from Oxfam stipulates that governing bodies and aid agencies must challenge the politics and power at the heart of the increasing effects of climate change, growing inequality and people’s vulnerability to disasters. Oxfam highlights the increasing threat of various major external risks and points out that the majority of these are actively dumped on poor people, with women bearing the brunt because of their social, political and economic status.
Progress
on Sanitation and Drinking Water - 2013 Update – UNICEF’s annual report
card presents country, regional and global estimates on improvements (or lack
of them) in access to drinking water and sanitation. According to the
publication, the world will not meet the MDG sanitation target of 75% and if
current trends continue, it is set to miss the target by more than half a
billion. To find out more about sanitation inequality, read our recent Progblog
article on the subject.
The
right poverty measure for post-2015 – is part
of a series of blogs that debate how a post-2015 framework ought to measure
poverty. This article by Stephan Klasen, Professor of development economics and
empirical economic research at the University of Göttingen, puts forward a
proposal for internationally coordinated national poverty measurement.
Thanks for checking in - we are pleased to inform you that our theme of the month in June will be Environment so we look forward to bringing you articles, blogs and Week in Reviews related to the subject in the coming weeks!
The Wikiprogress Team
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