12 public and private institutions have committed today to provide internship opportunities for people from underrepresented groups in the framework of the second edition of the UN Partnership for Diversity. They have signed a formal Commitment during a public event organized in Chisinau.
Voice actors from the upcoming animated movie Smurfs: The Lost Village today joined officials from the United Nations, UNICEF and United Nations Foundation at the world body’s headquarters in New York to celebrate International Day of Happiness with a campaign promoting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
New data released today by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the WHO Regional Office for Europe ahead of World TB Day show that new tuberculosis (TB) cases and deaths in the 53 countries of the WHO European Region declined each year by 4.3% and 8.5% respectively between 2011 and 2015. However, vulnerable groups for TB infection, such as people living with HIV, prisoners and migrants, do not benefit from this overall trend. In particular, new TB/HIV co-infections increased by 40% over the same time period. Providing testing to all TB patients for HIV and vice versa, together with counselling and rapid treatment, could reverse the negative trend.
Republic of Moldovaranks 107 out of 188 countries and territories in Human Development Index (HDI). The value of 0.699 puts the country in the top of medium human development category. From Europe and Central Asia, countries which are close to Moldova in 2016 HDI rank and to some extent in population size are Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, which have HDIs ranked 111 and 105 respectively.
UNDP Moldova, in partnership with Moldova Fruct Association of Fruit Producers and Exporters, extend Coolege Vitamine campaign to kids in public schools and kindergartens outside Chisinau. The extension is intended to trial a distribution of fresh fruits to 6,000 kids from 49 educational institutions in districts of Soroca, Anenii Noi, Hincesti, Edinet, Briceni, Ialoveni, Criuleni, Straseni, Rezina, Stefan Voda, Causeni, Ungheni, Orhei. Since autumn 2016, 3,500 kids from 5 schools and kindergartens from Chisinau receive apple snacks twice per week.
Dozens of organizations get together to boost biomass energy sector, with the support of the European Union. Thus, a biomass energy cluster was established today, following Romania’s model, to promote the development of the biomass energy sector through advocacy, research, international cooperation.
The seventeenth session of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities took place during March 21-22 in Geneva. The Committee’s agenda included the revision of Moldova’s situation with regard to the rights of persons with disabilities.
The United Nations, in partnership with the National Bureau of Statistics, launches today, 28 March 2017, GenderPulse – the first tool for interactive graphical and easy to understand visualization of gender sensitive statistical indicators. Thus, with a single click, users can find out what wages have women in comparison with men in various sectors of the economy and how these have changed over time, or what is the health status of women and men in cities and villages, or what the gender ratio in decision-making bodies and many others.