Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Helping People with Disabilities Become Agents of Change

By Nora Happel
Participation, political and economic empowerment, inclusion, accessible technology and infrastructure as well as indicators for meaningful implementation are among the key issues persons with disabilities want to see reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Opinion: Sub-Saharan Africa, Addis and Paris

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Rudi von Arnim
After the turn of the century, growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) picked up again after a quarter century of near stagnation for most, mainly due to increased world demand for minerals and other natural resources.

Opinion: The Oceans Need the Spotlight Now

By Dr. Palitha Kohona
The international community must focus its energies immediately on addressing the grave challenges confronting the oceans. With implications for global order and peace, the oceans are also becoming another arena for national rivalry.

International Cooperation is Key to Effective Public Services

By Beatriz Ciordia
“Civil service excellence can only be achieved if countries have access to an international forum where they can exchange innovative approaches and initiatives,” Patrick Keuleers, Director of the Governance and Peacebuilding Team of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), said Friday.

Opinion: 2015 and Beyond, Young Voices, Loud Demands

By Daniele Brunetto
As a young person interested in development, my heart beats a little faster when I look at the potential of 2015. There has never been so much at stake as this year for the future of our planet.

Opinion: Building Civil Service Excellence in the Post-2015 Development Agenda

By Kairat Abdrakhmanov
This September, we usher in the post-2015 development agenda with a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed upon by Member States, with civil society participation, based on national, regional and global consultations.

Farmers Find their Voice Through Radio in the Badlands of India

By Stella Paul
Eighty-year-old Chenabai Kushwaha sits on a charpoy under a neem tree in the village of Chitawar, located in the Tikamgarh district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, staring intently at a dictaphone.

New Approaches to Managing Disaster Focus on Resilience

By Kitty Stapp
Natural disasters have become a fact of life for millions around the world, and the future forecast is only getting worse.

Opinion: No Place to Hide in Addis

By Tamira Gunzberg
My colleagues just got back from Munich, where we held a summit bringing together over 250 young volunteers from across Europe. These youngsters campaigned in the run-up to and at the doorstep of the G7 Summit in Schloss Elmau, as one of the key moments in a year brimming with opportunities to tackle extreme poverty.

Cities Will Be Decisive in Fight for Sustainable Development

By Beatriz Ciordia
With cities increasingly in the spotlight on the international stage, urban planning and development has become a critical issue in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

From Residents to Rangers: Local Communities Take Lead on Mangrove Conservation in Sri Lanka

By Amantha Perera
Weekends and public holidays are deadly for one of Sri Lanka’s most delicate ecosystems – that is when the island’s 8,815 hectares of mangroves come under threat.

When a Kid With Low Self-Esteem Dreams of Becoming the President

By Kanya D'Almeida
You may have heard of Global Citizenship Education (GCED), but unless you move in international development circles, chances are you’re not entirely sure what the acronym means.

Q&A: Better Students, Better Citizens, Better World: Education Is the Key to Peace

By Valentina Ieri
In a world where high levels of social and religious intolerance, conflicts, violent extremism and environmental degradation are threatening justice and peace, the United Nations is trying to find ways to maintain world order and promote sustainable development.

U.N. Urged to Put Global Citizenship at Centre of Post-2015 Development Agenda

By Thalif Deen
When Denmark hosted the World Summit on Social Development (WSSD) in March 1995, one of the conclusions of that international gathering in Copenhagen was to create a new social contract with “people at the centre of development.”

U.N. Chief Backs New Int’l Decade for Water for Sustainable Development

By Thalif Deen
As the United Nations continues its negotiations to both define and refine a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) before a summit meeting of world leaders in September, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed support for a new “International Decade for Water for Sustainable Development.”

Opinion: G20 Turkish Presidency Keen to Benefit the Global Community

By Selim Yenel
Turkey assumed the Presidency of the Group of 20 (G20) on Dec. 1, 2014. It will culminate in the Antalya Summit on Nov. 15-16. Our priorities build upon the G20 multi-year agenda, but also reflect particular themes we see as important for 2015.

The U.N. at 70: A Time for Reflection and Reform

By Hardeep S. Puri
Seventy years since its inception, the United Nations remains at the core of the multilateral system. The world body, together with the Bretton Woods institutions, was conceived in the mid-1940s by the architects of the postwar order with the central aim of saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war on the one hand, and the need to reconstruct and revive the global economy on the other.

Opinion: Let’s End Chronic Hunger

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram
At the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS), heads of government and the international community committed to reducing the number of hungry people in the world by half. Five years later, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) lowered this level of ambition by only seeking to halve the proportion of the hungry.

Opinion: Tobacco Taxes Too Effective to Overlook in Financing for Development

By Katie Dain
Governments are in the midst of tough talks in New York over the text of the Addis Ababa Accord, which is scheduled to be adopted at the end of the Third Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) , to be held in Ethiopia in July.

Opinion: Voice of Civil Society Muffled in Post-2015 Negotiations for Better Future

By Esmee Russell
In September, the United Nations will agree on new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which will set development priorities for the next 15 years. The draft goals that have been developed are ambitious – they seek to end poverty and ensure no one is left behind.

The U.N. at 70: Time to Prioritise Human Rights for All, for Current and Future Generations

By Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin
Seventy years ago, with the founding of the United Nations, all nations reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, and in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small.
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