UN Messenger Of Peace Honoured For Anti-Hunger Efforts

United Nations Messenger of Peace Princess Haya Al Hussein, of Jordan, has been awarded the 2015 Hunger Hero Award by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) during a ceremony at...

2015 Could Be Year For Sustainable Development & Investment

A new report published by the United Nations Environmental Programme, the third progress report from their Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System, highli...

Hillary Clinton spurs ‘gender data revolution’

Through Data2x, Clinton unveiled new partnerships to improve data collection and help address gender issues around the world. There’s not much news in Hillary Clinton...

Globalizing sustainable development

The question of how the world can end extreme poverty and improve human wellbeing will take on new urgency in 2015, as the millennium development goals (MDGs) expire and a ...

NETWORK18 & ORF INITIATIVE – THE INDIA – US DIALOGUES

~Setting the Agenda for a strategic partnership between two great democracies~

New Delhi, January 2015: In the lead up to President Obama&...

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...

Save The Children Action Network Praises Obama's Call For Investing In Children

Save the Children Action Network commends President Obama for prioritizing the needs of children in his State of the Union address. This is the third consecutive year the P...

Madhuri Dixit to be brand ambassador of `Beti Bachao Beti Padhao` campaign

Bollywood evergreen diva Madhuri Dixit has been roped in as the brand ambassador of ‘Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao campaign’ which will be launched on January 22 by P...

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...