Conflict, climate change major factors behind growth in hunger, displacement: UN report

Francesca Perucci (L), Assistant Director of Statistics Division, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and Yongyi Min, Chief of Sustainable Development Goal Monitoring Section, UN DESA, attend a press briefing on the launch of Sustainable Development Goals Report 2018 at the UN headquarters in New York, on June 20, 2018. Conflict and climate change are the major contributing factors leading to growing numbers of people facing hunger and forced displacement, as well as curtailing progress toward universal access to basic water and sanitation services, the newly-launched UN Sustainable Development Goals Report 2018 said Wednesday. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)