News

Leaving No One Behind: From Commitment to Action

19 September 2019 | HDRO
The inclusion of the Leave No One Behind (LNOB) principle in the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 was a landmark decision. It seeks to ensure that the 2030 goals are achieved by all segments of society and that those furthest behind will be...Read more

Addressing recognition gaps: Destigmatization and the reduction of inequality

16 September 2019 | HDRO
On 16 September, the Human Development Report Office invited Michèle Lamont, Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies and Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University, for an enriching discussion on...Read more

Incorporating the rights and voice of future persons

06 September 2019 | HDRO
On 3 September, Professor Frances Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Development Economics, University of Oxford, and a member of the 2019 Human Development Report Advisory Board, led a seminar titled ‘Equality Across Generations – An Analytic and...Read more

Southern-based think tanks address inequalities in human development

18 July 2019 | HDRO and UNSSC
In the lead up to the upcoming 2019 Human Development Report (HDR) on inequality, UNOSSC and HDRO recently held a joint meeting in New York. The...Read more

Tackling inequality as One UN

16 July 2019 | HDRO and DESA and UN Habitat
The importance of coordinated efforts across the UN system to tackle inequality took center stage at a recent event on the margins of the High-Level Political Forum in New York. Jointly organized by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the...Read more

New data challenges traditional notions of rich and poor

10 July 2019 | UNDP and OPHI
Click here for FRENCH and SPANISH Of the 1.3 billion people who are multidimensionally poor, more...Read more

Announcement: New data challenges traditional notions of where poor people live and how they experience poverty and inequality

05 July 2019 | HDRO
The 2019 global MPI, to be released on 11 July 2019, will shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, revealing vast inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves. By...Read more

Podcast on Tackling Inequalities

13 June 2019 | HDRO
The goal of reducing inequalities is enshrined in the 2030 Agenda and its central pledge of leaving no one behind, which recognizes the need for inclusion and empowerment of the most vulnerable. ...Read more

If we conceive development as freedom, inequality is imprisonment

10 April 2019 | HDRO
Inequality is a defining challenge of our time. But what does it really look like? Do we have the right measures of inequality? And what might this mean for societies worldwide for the rest of the 21st Century? On 29 March 2019, the Human...Read more

2019 Human Development Report to focus on inequality

21 March 2019 | HDRO
Click here for FRENCH and...Read more
Browse through all HDialogues