When United Nations Member States gathered in Istanbul in 2011 at the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), it was with the view to express global solidarity and renew commitments to support strong and sustainable growth and development in this poorest and most vulnerable group of nations.
LDCs Publications
10 March 2017
01 March 2017
Soon after the creation of the United Nations Office of the High Representative in early 2002, the Open Forum for Partnership was launched as a platform for entities of the United Nations system, policy makers, academia and development practitioners, often located outside New York, to share their perspectives on development challenges that face the three most vulnerable groups of countries: the
28 February 2017
Following on the outcome of the 2010 High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations Secretary-General established the UN System Task Team in September 2011 to support UN system-wide preparations for the post-2015 UN development agenda, in consultation with all stakeholders.
25 January 2017
Climate change affects all, but it does not affect us equally.
24 January 2017
Governance for the future: Democracy and Development in the Least Developed Countries?documents the important strides being made bt the world's poorest nations to achieve better governence and show that poverty is not an insurmintable barrier to democracy.
19 January 2017
The UN-OHRLLS is pleased to bring out this informative publication as an advocacy tool to draw the attention of the international community, including civil society and the private sector, to the state of human development in LDCs focussing on women and gender. It is a special effort to highlight gender issues as a very crucial element in the development efforts of LDCs.
17 January 2017
As we are heading for the High-level meeting on the midterm comprehensive global review of the implementation of the Brussels Programme in the sixty-first session of the General Assembly in September 2006 at the United Nations in New York it is worth to have a closer look at the achievements since the Third United Nations Conference and try to answer the following questions: to what extent the