It gives me great pleasure to chair the opening session of this important workshop on Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to welcome all participants, particularly those ...

Eight global millennium development goals were established in 2000 by member states of the United Nations (UN) and endorsed ...

Eradicating extreme poverty globally, as outlined in the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, is achievable only if inequality and discrimination against women and girls is eradicated first. Faustine ...

You have heard me say it on more than one occasion that the world’s problems are all primarily economic in nature. Economics is about how we allocate our scarce resources among competing ends. If ...

Today, fewer people go hungry. There are more children attending school. Fewer and fewer people are dying unnecessarily from easily preventable and treatable diseases. Yet with only 500 days until the ...

"Tackling violence against women would address the gender dimensions of the Development Goals," says UN expert on violence against women The following statement was issued by the Special Rapporteur on ...

The target date for fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is 2015, and the world knows it is not on course to meet those goals. So world leaders are set to gather at the United Nations to ...

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 ...

TUNISIAONLINENEWS- According to UN officials, Tunisia is among the few African countries to have achieved the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) before 2015 thanks to its multi-dimensional ...

Much angst is being expressed over the fact that the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are off track. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres sounded the alarm in July: “Halfway to ...

Photos from Abigail McGuckin, Hoyt Gong, Samantha Friskey, Stephen Damianos, Damien Koussis, Maria Apiyo Odongo, and Sonali Dane (top left to bottom right) For the first time, Penn is a campus hub for ...