FirstBank leads Puerto Rico’s banking sector in sustainability disclosures
May 5, 2025
UPR study finds social impact dominates banks’ alignment with UN goals. #NewsismyBusiness
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Puerto Rico jumps to 2nd most searched travel destination in Caribbean
November 4, 2024
With a 22% year-over-year growth in 2024, Puerto Rico climbed to second place from fourth place a year ago. #NewsismyBusiness
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Insight: Responsible communication, an urgent call for a global issue
July 31, 2024
The increasing adoption of AI is too often wrongly used to create deepfakes, generating conflicts and focusing on vulnerable groups like senior citizens and children. #NewsismyBusiness
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Op-Ed: Puerto Rico far from complying with United Nations’ Sustainable Goals Agenda
July 10, 2020
In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly held its Sustainable Development Summit. During said event, 17 objectives that make up its 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda were approved and adopted. Some 193 member countries ratified the route to a new paradigm of global development by laying out a path or blueprint for achieving it. What are […]
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Statistics Institute unveils new website to measure sustainable development goals in P.R.
October 3, 2019
The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, in collaboration with the United Nations Foundation, (UNA-USA Puerto Rico) have joined forces to launch a website to make it possible for Puerto Rico to have indicators that measure its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approved by the United Nations. Ricardo Arzuaga-Chaves, Executive director of UNA-USA Puerto Rico, explained that […]
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Fundación Mapfre joins United Nations organization #speakup campaign
April 5, 2019
The Fifth Global Road Safety Week will take place May 6-12 around the world, promoted by the United Nations Organization and coordinated by the World Health Organization. This year, the week will focus on giving everyone a voice so they can come up with solutions to help reduce the number of fatalities and injuries caused […]
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UN: ‘American Dream’ rapidly becoming ‘American Illusion’
December 18, 2017
The United States, one of the world’s richest nations and the “land of opportunity,” is fast becoming a champion of inequality, according to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston.
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UN: ‘Human rights cannot be sidelined” in PR crisis
January 10, 2017
The United Nations Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights has called for fair solutions to the huge debt crisis in Puerto Rico, warning that ratcheting up austerity measures will threaten residents’ human rights and worsen the U.S. territory’s “intolerable” poverty levels.
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BBVA Microfinance Foundation gets U.N. award
December 10, 2012
The Principles for Social Investment Secretariat and United Nations Global Compact have distinguished BBVA with the “Social Investment Pioneers Award” in the category of Social Business, for its contribution to the communities in which it operates through the BBVA Microfinance Foundation project.
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