As the MDGs era comes to a conclusion with the end of the year, 2016 ushers in the official launch of the bold and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders last ...

Sept 19 (Reuters) - The U.N. Millennium Development Goals, approved in 2000 by U.N. member states and the world's top development organizations, are the theme of next week's General Assembly gathering ...

MINSK, 24 October (BelTA) – Belarus has managed to reach nearly all UN Millennium Development Goals, UN/UNDP Resident Representative in Belarus Sanaka Samarasinha said at the meeting of Belarus' ...

On 1 January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at a historic UN Summit — officially came ...

This week, world leaders will meet in New York for the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, marking the halfway point for the sprawling, ambitious 15-year global-development agenda set in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Getting the facts straight on how to make the world a better place. In the year 2000, something remarkable happened: the world ...

UNITED NATIONS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations adopted on Friday an ambitious new set of global goals to end poverty, hunger, advance equality and protect the environment over the ...

An interesting research conducted in Guatemala, Mexico in 1969 is true to Kenya today as is to the world. The research involved pre-school children in several villages, where one group was given a ...

This annual report presents the most comprehensive global assessment of progress to date, based on data provided by a large number of international organizations within and outside the United Nations ...