The FINANCIAL — WHO on December 8 launched a new comprehensive analysis of global health trends since 2000 and an assessment of the challenges for the next 15 years. “Health in 2015: from MDGs to SDGs ...

On 8 September 2000, full of optimism and resolve, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Millennium Declaration (resolution 55/2)[1], reaffirming that development, together with peace and ...

For the past decade, the annual UN General Assembly has brought the world together in a rare show of unity to promote the ambitious but elusive Sustainable Development Goals. Last month, however, the ...

Although overall health has improved in many countries, health care today is still inadequate, unevenly distributed, and expensive, particularly in the world’s poorest nations. This is catastrophic ...

New targets are maternal mortality rate at 110, neonatal mortality rate at 15, and under-five mortality at 25.

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 ...

All countries must work together in order to meet the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, speakers agreed during today's plenary session of the Global Impact Conference - Energy for Impact.

Leena Srivastava is Vice Chancellor and Honorary Executive Director at TERI University, New Delhi, India. December 2014, No. 3 Vol. LI, Conference Diplomacy Sustainable development is by definition ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Consider this: in 1956 Sweden and Kenya’s population was roughly at 7 million. Today Sweden has ...

Thank you, Chairman Castro and Ranking Member Malliotakis, for inviting me to speak on the implications for U.S. policy of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and recovery from the Covid-19 ...