A high-level ECOSOC meeting on advancing the U.N.’s 2030 goals and building back better from the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday with the adoption of a 32-page ministerial declaration.
The ministers also expressed great concern that the pandemic has widened inequalities and created new obstacles to achieving the U.N. goals and stressed the urgency to address the impact, underlying causes and challenges exacerbated by COVID-19. There is a saying that “a hungry man is an angry man,” he said, citing people recently venting their anger of the lack of food and gasoline, including in Sri Lanka.
This is the UN asking America to pitch in more money to combat “global poverty” Perhaps they should ask companies that have outsourced American jobs to raise their wages - just a thought.