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New WHO goals to focus on maternal mortality

In a special meeting for sustainable development in September, the World Health Organisation (WHO) will discuss the goals for the next 15 years. “It wants to end prev...

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Sustainable Development

The 169 target sustainable development goals likely here to stay, says U.N.

The long list of proposed goals that will replace the Millennium Development Goals are not going to be trimmed down. Doing so would put the progress made toward reaching co...

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Sustainable Development

United Nations' Decade of Education for Sustainable Development ends on December 31 this year

He years from 2005 to 2014 were declared as the United Nations General Assembly as the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) following the Johannesburg Pla...

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Health

India Will Meet Under-Five Mortality Rate Target Of 2015: Government

NEW DELHI: Belying concerns raised by several quarters, the government asserted that the country is well on course to meet the Millennium Development Goals of achieving the...

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Thought Factory

Why is the World aiming for Sustainability?

To decide the narrative for this article has been quite a task. There are so many approaches to address the issue at hand, I could have been the cynic and looked back on al...

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Sustainable Development

Sustainable development goals: eight ways to make reality match ambition

Next year, governments will agree a new global development framework of breathtaking ambition. We already know the likely shape of the sustainable development goals (SDGS) ...

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Sustainable Development

UN secretary-general says no plans to reduce sustainable development goals

In his report, Ban Ki-moon backs the 17 goals and 169 targets proposed by the UN working group, despite the difficulty member states may have in communicating them The UN s...

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Sustainable Development

Learning Today for a Sustainable Future

The international community has been striving to shape a safer and richer future for the world. This was the purpose of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by t...

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Sustainable Development

Unilever initiative helps 25 million people gain toilet access by 2020

Improving global access to sanitation can be a foundation for better health, nutrition and education The toilet. We spend about three years of our lives sitting on it. But ...

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Sustainable Development

The sanitation challenge

The U.N. set the Millennium Development Goals or the MDG between 2000 and 2015. Goals 4 and 7 was to halve the number of people without access to improved water or sanitati...

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