2020 United Nations E-Government Survey
<p>As the COVID-19 pandemic forces lockdowns, most countries and municipalities are pursuing digital government strategies, many with innovative initiatives – but vast numbers of people still do
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)
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A post-SDG Summit governance primer: interlinking the institutional, peace and justice dimensions of SDG16 (2016–2019)
<p>As the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development enters its fifth year of implementation, it is opportune to ask how governance is understood and implemented around the world. In fact, one can go further
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous Peoples
<p>Indigenous peoples in many regions have a long history of devastation from epidemics brought by colonizers, from the arrival of the first Europeans in the Americas who brought smallpox and influenza
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The world's cities in 2018
This data booklet highlights current and future trajectories of populations in cities around the globe, drawing on the population estimates and projections published in World Urbanization Prospects: The
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The Sustainable Development Goals report 2017
<p>More than 2 billion people globally are living in countries with excess water stress says the Sustainable Development Goals report 2017. Northern Africa and Western Asia, as well as Central and Southern Asia, experience water stress levels above 60 per cent, indicating the strong probability of future water scarcity.</p>
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World urbanization prospects: the 2011 revision - highlights
<p><span id="itro1">India and China will see highest urban population rise in the next 40 years according to this 2011 revision of UN World Urbanisation Prospects & warns that this poses challenges