Source: International Monetary Fund – IMF (video statements)
The IMF shares economic expertise and practical experience with member countries through advice, training, and peer learning, helping governments strengthen institutions and support growth, stability, and jobs. https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/what-we-do
Source: International Monetary Fund – IMF (video statements)
Introducing IMF’s Capacity Development Office in Thailand
Get to know the IMF’s Capacity Development Office in Thailand (CDOT) and discover how it works with partners to support capacity development across the region.
Source: United Nations (video statements)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a powerful blueprint for the continent’s socio-economic transformation. But how can Africa’s media help reshape the continent’s global narrative—from one of risk to one of opportunity?
This discussion will examine the media’s role in promoting a more informed, pro-investment outlook—one that supports economic growth while advancing SDG delivery. The Africa Media Leaders Roundtable seeks to harness the transformative power of media and storytelling to redefine how Africa’s progress toward the SDGs is portrayed—promoting a more nuanced, hopeful and inspiring portrayal that drives action, informs policy decisions and attracts sustainable investment.
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The Goals Lounge is an innovative platform at the UN Headquarters that brings together dialogue, partnerships and visibility to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Since its launch, it has enabled major announcements, mobilized significant financial commitments and supported high-impact initiatives across areas such as mental health, women’s leadership and digital transformation, while engaging diverse stakeholders and audiences worldwide.
Source: United Nations (video statements)
How can governance systems create meaningful opportunities for people to influence the decisions that affect their lives? Marking the International Day of Democracy 2026, this session will explore how deliberative democracy can foster greater agency and ownership by bringing diverse voices into public decision-making. Through reflections on international experience and citizens’ assemblies, participants will discuss how participation, dialogue and inclusion can strengthen trust and contribute to more responsive and effective governance.
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The Goals Lounge is an innovative platform at the UN Headquarters that brings together dialogue, partnerships and visibility to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Since its launch, it has enabled major announcements, mobilized significant financial commitments and supported high-impact initiatives across areas such as mental health, women’s leadership and digital transformation, while engaging diverse stakeholders and audiences worldwide.
Source: United Nations (video statements)
Transformation is not only about new strategies, systems or structures — it also begins with how we, as individuals, show up to change. In this interactive two-part session, we explore practical ways staff can create the conditions for greater presence, adaptability, trust and meaningful connection in everyday work.
Drawing on insights from Our Common Agenda, the Pact for the Future, UN80 and the Transformative Spaces initiative, the conversation will connect system-level transformation with the individual: How can we work with uncertainty, shift mindsets, build resilience and make space for new possibilities? What small practices can help us navigate complexity and contribute differently to the teams and systems around us?
The session then moves from conversation into experience, as Rob Rea leads participants through breathwork and mindfulness, informed by psychological insights into stress, presence and self-regulation — offering a practical opportunity to experience the very capacities that support meaningful change.
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The Goals Lounge is an innovative platform at the UN Headquarters that brings together dialogue, partnerships and visibility to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Since its launch, it has enabled major announcements, mobilized significant financial commitments and supported high-impact initiatives across areas such as mental health, women’s leadership and digital transformation, while engaging diverse stakeholders and audiences worldwide.
Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)
The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate relating to a referendum on public ownership of the water sector.
Paul Davies MP has been asked by the Committee to open the debate. The Government will send a Minister to respond.
Read the petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762640
Find petitions you agree with, and sign them: https://petition.parliament.uk/
What are petition debates?
Petition debates are ‘general’ debates which allow MPs from all parties to discuss the important issues raised by one or more petitions, and put their concerns to Government Ministers.
Petition debates don’t end with a vote to implement the request of a petition. This means that MPs will not vote on the issues raised in the petition at the end of the debate.
The Petitions Committee can only schedule debates on petitions to parliament started on petition.parliament.uk
Find out more about how petition debates work: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/content/194347/how-petitions-debates-work/
Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
Peter Brown, Global Workforce Leader at PwC, explains to the World Economic Forum’s Kateryna Gordiychuk how AI is changing the world of #work for entry-level job-seekers.
Entry-level jobs have traditionally helped young people build the #skills they need to progress. But according to PwC research, employers are now 7 times more likely to expect candidates to arrive with ‘senior-level’ skills.
Listen to the full conversation on our #MeetTheLeader podcast, exploring the report Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Entry-Level Work: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3QjJhkcHLrIlr3QcPpXqoT?si=9Nk9LnFVRXCS_2Bx7rg30Q&nd=1&dlsi=f77ef1ca63cb499e
The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. It provides a global, impartial and not-for-profit platform for meaningful connection between stakeholders to establish trust, and build initiatives for cooperation and progress.
Find out more below:
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Source: United Nations (video statements)
In his remarks to the 18th BRICS Summit 2026, in New Delhi, India, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “as we move irreversibly to a multipolar world, all countries must work to strengthen and safeguard a multilateral system that delivers for all with the United Nations at its centre.”
Source: United Nations (video statements)
Next week, world leaders will gather at UNHQ in New York for the 81st General Assembly session. Together, they will seek solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing humanity.
Learn about the high-level events set to take place: https://www.un.org/en/high-level-week-2026
Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)
Lords members will quiz the government following a letter signed by more than 800 hospitality industry leaders calling for VAT on hospitality to be reduced from 20 per cent to 10 per cent. Members will press government on what assessment it has made of the impact of rising costs on hospitality businesses, investment, employment and opportunities for young people.
Private notice questions are urgent questions granted by the Lord Speaker. Find out more https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/glossary/private-notice-question/
Catch-up on House of Lords business:
Watch live events: https://parliamentlive.tv/Lords
Read the latest news: https://www.parliament.uk/lords/
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