"We're in this together" — UN Foundation chief

Let’s Back Spirit of “We’re in This Together” — UN Foundation Chief | GZERO World

Global development has been going backwards since even before the pandemic, and there's no end in sight.

Extreme poverty is now rising again, and fraught politics at every level is making it harder to fight inequality around the world.

But it's not an irreversible trend, UN Foundation President Elizabeth Cousens tells Ian Bremmer on GZERO World.

“The challenge of our times," she says, is "to re-galvanize that spirit of 'we're in it together' — [that] we have more in common than we have that divides us.“

Watch the GZERO World episode: Inequality isn't inevitable - if global communities cooperate

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