post-2015 MDGs
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 24, 2014
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What happened at the annual United Nations women’s conference this year? Over 10 days of both mercifully brief and far-too-long speeches by policy people, government ministers, UN staff members and a wide array of other experts, the 58th session of the …
- Categories: Women
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- Denis Fitzgerald
- • March 13, 2014
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The future global development agenda must include a standalone goal for gender equality, and United Nations member states, who will have the final say on the successor to the Millennium Development Goals, should not use culture or ideology as an …
- Categories: Development, Women
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- Danielle M. Bennett
- • February 23, 2014
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What can be done to educate the 250 million children, mostly in South Asia, West Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, who lack basic reading and math skills by the time they reach adulthood? The answer to this global learning crisis, a …
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 6, 2013
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The New York Times has assigned Somini Sengupta to be its new full-time bureau chief at the United Nations. Sengupta replaces Neil MacFarquhar, who left the position this summer after five years and will be based in Moscow for the newspaper. …
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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- Opinion by Thomas Pogge
- • May 1, 2013
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NEW HAVEN — As the Millennium Development Goals reach their deadline of 2015, the United Nations, international policy partners and governments are already tasked with creating a set of new goals to continue to work toward ending poverty worldwide. They …
- Categories: Climate Change, Development, OPINIONS
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