Speeches & statements

Featured publications 

LDCs

UN-OHRLLS - The LDCs -Advocacy Booklet (English/French)

UN-OHRLLS - The Impact of Climate Change on the Development Prospects of the Least Developed Countries and   Small Island Developing States

UN-OHRLLS - Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the LDCs

UN-OHRLLS & World Bank - Measuring Progress in the LDCs: A Statistical Profile

UN-OHRLLS & UNDP - Governance for the Future: Democracy and Development in the LDCs

UN-OHRLLS - Breaking Barriers: Gender Perspectives and Empowerment of Women in LDCs

UN-OHRLLS - Brussels Programme of Action: Addressing the Special Needs of LDCs

LLDCs

UN-OHRLLS - Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the LLDCs

Midterm Review Newsletter

SIDS

UN-OHRLLS - The Impact of Climate Change on the Development Prospects of the Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States

SIDS World Statistics Pocketbook 2008

Newsletters

 Summer 2009 - The Commitment, Issue 2

 Spring 2009 - The Commitment, Issue 1

 

 Fraud alert

 

 

 

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UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

Cheick Sidi Diarra, High Representative for LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS speaks at the high-level Asia-Pacific policy dialogue for the LDCs in Dhaka on January 18. Next to him is ESCAP Executive Secretary, Noeleen Heyzer. 

Latest news

20 January 2010: LDCs call for greater say in global financial structures

19 January 2010: UN chiefs, Bangladesh Prime Minister lead call for recommitment to help least developed countries

19 January 2010: LDCs need investment, not aid - UN Official

16 December 2009: Ms Lakshmi Puri appointed UN-OHRLLS director

7 December 2009: Downturn 'hits poor nations hardest'

30 November 2009: Duty-free quota-free market access for LDCs is mandatory: Nepal

19 November 2009: Caribbean States Unite in Song to Promote the Climate Change Position of Small Islands

17 November 2009: AOSIS rejects calls for real engagement at COP 15

Events

LDCS 

 

 

 

LLDCS

 

 

 

SIDS

  • MSI+5 High-level review , New York, September 2010

 

  • Preparatory Committee Meeting/SIDS Day, New York, 10 May 2010 (tbc)

 

  • Inter-regional Review Meeting,New York, 9 May 2010 (tbc) 

 

  • AIMS Regional Meeting , Maldives, 9-12 March 2010 

 

  • Caribbean Regional Meeting, Grenada , 3-4 March 2010 (tbc) 

 

  • Pacific Regional Meeting, Vanuatu, 8-9 February 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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