In 2015, the seventieth UN General Assembly adopted an ambitious set of development goals for improving economic, environmental, and social conditions worldwide by 2030. The seventeen Sustainable ...

With only five years until the 2030 deadline for achieving the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new international ...

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 linked objectives adopted in 2015 to tackle the world’s most urgent issues by 2030. These targets include ending poverty and hunger, ensuring healthy ...

More than 70 million people will be pushed back into extreme poverty in 2020, the first rise in global poverty since 1998. Some 1.57 billion students worldwide are out of school and 370 million of ...

With current progress falling far short of what is required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, this year’s High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development on 8 to 17 ...

Desertification threatens 24% of the world's land area spanning 126 countries and impacts 35% of the global population. Yet ...

For more than three decades, DHS provided vital demographic and health data on population, health, HIV, and nutrition in over ...

The Sustainable Development Goals are embedded in the 2030 Agenda, a framework developed by the UN and officially launched during the UN General Assembly on 25 September 2015. The 2030 Agenda sets out ...

Top finance experts are meeting at UN Geneva this week to push for a radical shake up in the way economic growth is gauged, ...

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