Global South’s Rights, Expectations Under Threat: Jaishankar at High

Global South’s Rights, Expectations Under Threat: Jaishankar at High-Level Meet

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New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Tuesday said that the Global South’s rights and expectations, developed over decades, are now under serious threat. Speaking at the High-Level Meeting of Like-Minded Global South Countries in New York, he warned that the challenges faced by developing nations have intensified in the first half of this decade. These include the aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, extreme climate events, volatility in trade, uncertainty in investment flows and interest rates, and the sharp slowdown of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agend