Development
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 5, 2015
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KOUBRI, Burkina Faso — More than 2,500 miles away from this village, world leaders met recently in Paris to try to save the earth from severe climate change and its deadly effects. Here in West Africa, people in rural communities …
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Development, Health and Population
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- Tendai Musakwa
- • November 10, 2015
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The first United Nations development aid program financed solely by African countries for their own benefit was announced recently at the UN headquarters in New York. Unitlife, which was presented as world leaders convened at the 70th session of the …
- Categories: Africa, Development, Education, Health and Population, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 10, 2015
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When the United Nations’ member states gave final approval at a special General Assembly session on Sept. 25 to the new global development policy, they were making a commitment to the most wide-ranging and ambitious plan ever attempted by the …
- Categories: Development, SDGs
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 25, 2015
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Pope Francis spread his gospel of not forgetting the poor at the United Nations on Friday morning, where he spoke in his native Spanish to the 193 member delegations and heads of state gathered before him at the General Assembly …
- Categories: Development, General Assembly, Poverty, SDGs, Secretary-General, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 8, 2015
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When member countries of the United Nations agreed to the Millennium Development Goals 15 years ago, advocates for stronger rights for women and girls were disappointed as governments (and the Vatican) balked at reasserting the bold promises of the international …
- Categories: Development, Education, SDGs
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- Bill Orme
- • June 14, 2015
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It’s all over but the shouting. But the shouting is still loud, and it’s mostly about the indicators. And the indicators, ultimately, may be all that matters about the United Nations’ new Sustainable Development Goals. After more than two years …
- Categories: Development, General Assembly, SDGs
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 17, 2015
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Before this year ends, the United Nations will have committed itself and its 193 member governments to a new 15-year development strategy to be hailed as a blueprint for ending poverty, expanding social justice and strengthening equality. Equality for whom …
- Categories: Development, LGBT, SDGs
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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • April 27, 2015
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The United Nations is positioning itself to turn the vast amount of digital data generated by users all over the world into a key source of information to help write and track the goals for the post-2015 development agenda. The …
- Categories: Development, SDGs
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 25, 2015
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Advocates offering some alternative ideas and a few dissenting views on the Sustainable Development Goals on track to be adopted by the United Nations at a special session later this year are convening on Jan. 26 in New York to …
- Categories: Development, Governance, LGBT, SDGs, Women
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- Bill Orme
- • October 28, 2014
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British Prime Minister David Cameron had two clear messages when he spoke at a post-2015 global development goals forum on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly last month. The first was his emphatic view that the General Assembly …
- Categories: Development, SDGs, Secretary-General
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 15, 2014
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Preparing for next year, when United Nations member governments will meet to grade the Millennium Development Goals and agree on a new set of benchmarks for 2015-2030, an important part of the discussion is focusing on Africa, the continent recognized …
- Categories: Africa, Development, Health and Population
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- Steven Edwards
- • October 5, 2014
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Ecuador’s foreign minister says his country will indefinitely host the WikiLeaks co-founder, Julian Assange, at its embassy in London if that is what it takes to spare him from an eventual extradition to the United States. In a wide-ranging interview …
- Categories: Development, Latin America, Poverty, US Foreign Relations, Women
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- Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss
- • August 22, 2014
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One year ago, the report of a high-level panel of world leaders and renowned development specialists proposed 12 goals and 50 indicators for the United Nation’s post-2015 agenda. These were already unwieldy numbers, but after a year and a half …
- Categories: Development
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 4, 2014
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The 2014 United Nations Human Development Report appeared at the end of July wrapped around the title “Sustaining Human Progress,” a goal that moves beyond meeting the targets that can measure achievement at any given time but cannot promise continuity …
- Categories: Development, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 3, 2014
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BAMAKO, Mali — As the first United States-African leaders summit opens this week in Washington, D.C, it is hard to hear Malians in their capital drum up enthusiasm for it. President Barack Obama has invited 50 African heads of state …
- Categories: Africa, Development, Governance, UN Peacekeeping, Women
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