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On the occasion of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the EU announced it is investing a further €7 million to promote and protect indigenous peoples’ rights worldwide.

The European Commission announced today the 25 members of the European Union’s Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) Youth Network.

Today, the transparency NGO Publish What You Fund (PWYF) has released the Aid Transparency Index 2022, an index which biennially assesses the transparency performance of some 50 major aid providers, including the European Commission, the European Development Bank (EIB) and EU member states.

Today, European Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, met with Leyner Palacios, Commissioner for the Colombian Truth Commission. The meeting coincides with the publication of the Truth Commission’s final report on the country’s internal armed conflict since 1958.

Jutta Urpilainen, EU Commissioner for International Partnerships, participated in the 13th Horn of Africa initiative Ministerial meeting. It was the occasion to reiterate EU’s full support to the initiative and to the Horn of Africa countries.

The French Presidency – represented by the Ministry for National Education and Youth and the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs –, together with the European Commission, held a ministerial round table on 29 June in Paris, to discuss the role of the European Union in transforming education.

The EU, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and the cocoa sector have today agreed to step up work on making cocoa more sustainable.

At the European Development Days, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain, launched today a new European Union – Latin America and Caribbean partnership on local manufacturing of vaccines, medicines and other health technologies...

At a Ceremony held at the 2022 European Development Days in Brussels, Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, announced today the winners of this year's Lorenzo Natali Prize.

The European Commission adopted today a proposal to mobilise €600 million from the reserves of the European Development Fund to address the current food security crisis aggravated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.