On World Health Day, let’s not lose sight of hope, of taking action to make sure we create societies in which our children can not only survive but thrive
Water is central to human life and cuts across the sustainable development goals water
Each of us probably overlooks tens of thousands of important news stories every year. But the biggest one people missed in 2019 happened in October
Increasing access to health services will prevent many mothers and newborn babies from dying.
The UN’s working group suggests 169 targets for the Sustainable Development Goals. But we have to focus on fewer if the results are to be measurable.
The UN needs to get a fix on achievable goals for its next 15-year global development agenda. Economics may well show the way, writes Bjørn Lomborg.
Despite increased efforts to improve child and maternal health, countries are still lagging behind in meeting their Millennium Development Goals.
Resource-lean, short of professionals and prone to food crises, Malawi doesn’t look like a candidate for any of the millennium development goals.
Government and the unions are being lobbied by an industry increasingly desperate to sell reactors, says <b>Rianne Teule</b>.
South Africa has failed to deliver quality services to the poor, despite adequate funding, Planning Minister Trevor Manuel said on Wednesday.
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/ 20 September 2010
Budget-strapped rich donors will call for a rethink of strategies to make sure their aid funds are not wasted when world leaders meet this week.
A United Nations report has warned that the negative economic climate could slow progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.
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/ 29 November 2008
The World Bank has urged industrialised nations to maintain aid flows to developing nations to offset an expected decline in private capital flows.
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/ 30 September 2008
Last week world leaders gathered at the UN to assess midway progress towards achieving targets known as the Millennium Development Goals.
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/ 22 September 2008
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has appealed to rich countries to honour their 2005 pledge to more than double their aid to the African continent.
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/ 22 September 2008
Heads of state, private-sector leaders and development agencies will this week assess the global fight against poverty.
Aids-related deaths in South Africa: 2 424 770 at noon on March 18 Mothers and children in South Africa are dying in alarming numbers. Far from being on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing child mortality by two-thirds, the country is among only a dozen worldwide where child deaths are rising. […]