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- Alan Doss
- • March 23, 2021
GENEVA — One of the quiet pleasures of life is an early-morning cappuccino in the company of a good newspaper. That was before Covid-19 came along. The pandemic and resulting disruption of newspaper deliveries and shuttering of cafes has…
- Categories: Development, SDGs, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 30, 2019
For the first time since a new development agenda was adopted in 2015 to make the world a better place for everyone, government leaders assembled at the United Nations in late September to take stock of progress. The verdict…
- Categories: SDGs
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 18, 2019
Serious flaws in the system for tracking progress on the Sustainable Development Goals have been uncovered in a newly published collection of stunning, provocative research by eminent developing policy specialists. They are finding that the lofty visions that produced…
- Categories: Health and Population, SDGs
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 27, 2015
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…
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 10, 2015
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…
- Categories: Development, SDGs
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 3, 2015
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…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Latin America, Poverty
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 13, 2015
By almost every measure, this year will be monumental for the United Nations. The organization will be 70 years old and that will inspire, as anniversaries always do, a lot of stocktaking, analysis and, of course, criticism. Past stumbles…
- Categories: Governance, LGBT, SDGs, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 26, 2014
Amid the horrors that women and girls have suffered around the world in 2014 — including being forced to flee their homes by the hundreds of thousands in Syria, the sexual enslavement of Christians and Yazidis in Iraq and…
- Categories: Health and Population, SDGs, Women
- Bill Orme
- • October 28, 2014
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…
- Categories: Development, SDGs, Secretary-General
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 14, 2014
NEW ORLEANS — In this urban symbol of disaster unpreparedness, journalists who cover climate change and the environment gathered this month, almost exactly nine years after Hurricane Katrina tore this city apart, to swap stories and advice while brainstorming…
- Categories: Climate Change, Health and Population
- Stephen Browne  and Thomas G. Weiss
- • August 22, 2014
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…
- Categories: Development
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 4, 2014
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…
- Categories: Development, Women
- Rebecca Brown
- • July 17, 2014
The United Nations’ post-2015 development agenda is the next phase of the Millennium Development Goals, which provided a 15-year road map to tackle poverty and foster development in the world’s poorest countries. But as putting together the new agenda…
- Categories: SDGs, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 18, 2014
Putting a new focus on maternal health and obstetric fistula in particular, which devastates the lives of women and girls in many poor countries, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has given its 2014 UN Population Award to an…
- Categories: UN Agencies, Women
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