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World Conference On Youth 2014 In Colombo

In, 2000 when world leaders met in New York to sign the Millennium Declaration which enshrined the Millennium Development Goals, I was only eight years old. My generation grew up and came of age with the MDGs. Little did I know...

by Senel Wanniarachchi

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Climate Change Threatening Women’s’ Reproductive Power

Salma Banu is 23 years old, a worker of shrimp cultivation in Tafalbari village , Southkhali Union in Bagherhat Bangladesh, she expressed “ while my husband‘s monthly income from his cultivated land was not enough to contin...

by Tithe Farhana

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WATCH: “Make Me Visible, Make Me Count” – A voice for girls in poverty

Since girls were originally left out of the Millennium Development Goals, The Girl Declaration was created by the Girl Effect and the United Nations Foundation to put girls on the post-2015 development agenda. 508 girls living ...

by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg

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China: The MDG’s Are About More Than Economic Empowerment

The first target of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was met in 2010, as the global poverty rate of $1.25 a day fell in 2010 to less than half the 1990 rate. This was achieved largely as a result of the huge leaps made b...

by Joe Corry-Roake

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Entering a new age in the relationship between humans and ecosystems

The year 2015 will be punctuated by a flurry of major international conferences. Three of these conferences are of great importance: the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which will be held in June in...

by Kennedy Mbeva

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World Conference On Youth 2014 In Colombo

Climate Change Threatening Women’s’ Reproductive Power

WATCH: “Make Me Visible, Make Me Count” – A voice for girls in poverty

China: The MDG’s Are About More Than Economic Empowerment

Entering a new age in the relationship between humans and ecosystems

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