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Voice the Future SIDS Journalism Campaign

March 22, 2024

The future of Small Island Developing States (SIDS), espoused by SIDS, must be based on “resilient prosperity.” The “Voice the Future SIDS Journalism Campaign.” a drumbeat supporting this ethos, is a United Nations initiative designed to promote SIDS based reporting, and to attract both developing and accomplished journalists from SIDS member countries to cover the pivotal Fourth International Conference on SIDS (SIDS4), scheduled for 27-30 May 2024 in Antigua and Barbuda.

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#Locked Out: Breaking Barriers, Driving Connectivity

October 10, 2023

Spread across four continents, more than 570 million people live in the world’s 32 landlocked developing countries (LLDCs). They share unique challenges: geographic isolation, remoteness from global markets and dependence on trade and transport systems in neighbouring transit countries.

Due to a lack of direct access to the sea – their imports and exports take long, expensive journeys of hundreds, if not thousands of kilometres, to and from the closest maritime ports. Their geographic constraints heighten their vulnerability to the adverse effects of climate change.

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