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Sustainable Development

Harnessing The Data Revolution For Sustainable Development

On September 27, 2015, the member states of the United Nations agreed to a set of Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals) that define a common agenda to achieve inclus...

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Bollywood

Kajol To Promote The Importance Of Hygiene At The Un General Assembly

Kajol, who will next be seen in Dilwale, may be currently busy with her film commitments but the actress has taken time out to attend the United Nations General Assembly th...

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Bollywood

Akshay Kumar Supports The Global Goals Campaign.

MUMBAI: Actor Akshay Kumar is the first Indian personality to get behind the #dizzygoals challenge in support of a campaign to make the new Global Goals for Sustainable Dev...

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Health

Why It's Crucial To Engage Men In Maternal Health

Later this month, the world’s 193 nations will formally endorse an ambitious set of sustainable development goals (SDG) aimed primarily at ending global poverty, symb...

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Health

India Fixes Health Goals For Next 15 Years.

India has set itself a challenging target to reduce maternal mortality rate to 70 per 1000 live births, and for neonatal and under-five to 12 and 25 per 1,000 births respec...

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Environment

Cecil The Lion Killing Brings Calls For Extradition And Global Reckoning On Endangered Species

The killing of Cecil the Lion in a remote stretch of Zimbabwe has prompted an international reckoning over how countries protect endangered species and combat illegal hunti...

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Sustainable Development

Sustainable Tourism: An Opportunity For Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The HLPF on sustainable development is the main United Nations platform on sustainable development. It provides political leadership, guidance and recommendations. It follo...

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Environment

Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet

Since 2009, people around the world have celebrated World Oceans Day. The United Nations General Assembly took the concept, first proposed in 1992 and made it official on 5...

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Sustainable Development

Why The Sustainable Development Goals Matter

Following the progress made under the Millennium Development Goals, which guided global development efforts in the years 2000-2015, the world’s governments are curren...

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Sustainable Development

Water for sustainable development

In the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012 (Rio+20), water has been recognised as the key to achieving sustainable development as it is closely lin...

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