Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kojo Quartey, president Monroe County Community College You have heard me say it on more than one occasion that the world’s ...

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 ...

BOSTON — In April 2007, the General Assembly of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations convened to discuss progress made towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

With two weeks left to go until the EU Summit in June, where European Heads of State will endorse the EU position for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) ahead of the UN High Level meeting in ...

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 ...

Emerging Voices features contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is from Rolph van der Hoeven, ...

The UN Millennium Development Goals, a blueprint for development agreed to by all the world's countries and leading development institutions, includes the goal of reducing the under-five child ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - About 800 million people still live in dire poverty and suffer from hunger despite the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) being the most ...

21 September 2010 AMMAN (JT) -- His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday said that Jordan has integrated the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) into its national strategy of structural reform, sustainable ...

The Millennium Declaration, signed by over 180 world leaders at the start of the new millennium, committed the international community to targeted achievements on a number of goals by 2015. Along with ...

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 ...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on world leaders to attend a summit next September to boost efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Coming amid mixed progress toward the ...