Foreign Desk Report
NEW YORK: The President of UN Economic and Social Council, Pakistani Ambassador Munir Akram, has stressed the need for addressing inequality at the international and national levels to promote the goal of justice envisioned in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of efforts to build international peace and security.
“Justice flows from equality; injustice from inequality, discrimination and lack of fairness in policy and practice,” he said in his online remarks to the SDG-16 Conference 2021 which is being held in Bangkok, the headquarters of the UN Economic and Social Commission.
Ambassador Akram said that the implementation of SDG-16, which calls for “peace, justice and strong institutions,” required work at the international level.
