Joseph Chamie

For Census-Takers Worldwide, 2020 Could Be a Rough Year

December 21, 2019

For more than a week, protesters of all faiths have been marching by the hundreds of thousands on the streets of many Indian cities and towns to condemn a divisive new citizenship law targeting Muslims across the South Asian region. The trouble had been brewing for months, after the Hindu nationalist government of Prime …

Development, Refugees, Sustainable Development Goals

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What to Expect at the UN’s First Migration and Refugee Summit Meeting

September 17, 2016

by Dulcie Leimbach

How do you solve the refugee and migrant crisis? At the United Nations, which has by default inherited the pressing problem of the biggest movement of people from their homes since the end of World War II, you hold meetings, conferences, panel discussions, produce “outcome documents,” give speeches, promise to do more and weep, …

Migration, Refugees

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Finding True Power for Women and Girls: The UN Goals’ Toughest Task

October 27, 2015

by Barbara Crossette

Challenged by the staggering agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to abolish most of the world’s ills within 15 years, research organizations, advocacy groups and objective demographers had begun to do the math well before the goals were adopted globally in September 2015. Success or failure rests on complex equations with interlinked or …

Africa, Asia, Education, Sustainable Development Goals, Women

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Freed From Extreme Poverty, but Left Out of the Middle Class

August 3, 2015

by Barbara Crossette

When the final assessment of what the Millennium Development Goals achieved was released on July 6, the United Nations said confidently that more than 1 billion people had been lifted from poverty since 1990, the baseline year for setting the goals, which were then monitored from 2000 to 2015. But where did these poor …

Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Latin America, Poverty

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Scrutinizing Millennium Goal Claims as 2015 Looms

April 16, 2012

by Barbara Crossette

In early March, a report from Unicef and the World Health Organization proclaimed proudly that the world had not only met but also surpassed the Millennium Development Goals target of reducing by half the number of people without access to safe drinking water. The agencies said that 89 percent of the global population — …

Development, Health and Population

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Joseph Chamie

For Census-Takers Worldwide, 2020 Could Be a Rough Year

What to Expect at the UN’s First Migration and Refugee Summit Meeting

Finding True Power for Women and Girls: The UN Goals’ Toughest Task

Freed From Extreme Poverty, but Left Out of the Middle Class

Scrutinizing Millennium Goal Claims as 2015 Looms

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