Sustainable Development Goals

Rising Attacks and Cultural Obstacles Denying Education for Girls

February 13, 2015

In the few months remaining before a new set of development goals are set to be adopted in the United Nations to replace the Millennium Development Goals, specialists in many fields will be drilling down into why some of those MDGs have fallen short — sometimes far short — of their aspirations, especially in …

Education, Gender-Based Violence, Human Rights, Sustainable Development Goals

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2015: A Year of Potential Landmarks for the UN

January 13, 2015

by Barbara Crossette

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 will get attention and an army of “reformers” will offer prescriptions for the future. In …

Governance, LGBT, Sustainable Development Goals, Women

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In 2014, a Year of Catastrophes, Women Still Made Some Gains

December 26, 2014

by Barbara Crossette

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 the kidnapping and forced conversion to radical Islam of girls from schools in northern Nigeria …

Health and Population, Sustainable Development Goals, Women

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Can Good Governance Become a Global Development Goal?

October 28, 2014

by Bill Orme

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 panel’s proposal for 17 Sustainable Development Goals with 169 associated “targets” was too unwieldy …

Development, Secretary-General, Sustainable Development Goals

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Will Women’s Reproductive Rights Be Dropped in the Post-2015 Agenda?

July 17, 2014

by Rebecca Brown

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 moves forward, it is becoming clear that the critical needs of women may be pushed …

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Can Europe Get Its Act Together to Influence the Post-2015 Agenda?

June 24, 2014

by Sophie Hermanns

BONN — As the open working group on the new sustainable development goals is nearing its last session in mid-July, the European Commission adopted a communication on June 2, outlining Europe’s priorities for the post-2015 development agenda. This work is part of the European Union’s effort to make a substantive contribution in shaping the …

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The Post-2015 UN Development Agenda

September 22, 2013

by Jose Antonio Ocampo

One of the success stories of the United Nations has been its capacity to serve as a forum to agree on global development goals. They include not only those set in the UN Development Decades, but also in the series of UN conferences convened since the 1970s and particularly the series of summits that …