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 ...

In 2000, 189 countries collectively adopted the Millennium Declaration, which evolved into an ambitious set of concrete targets called the Millennium Development Goals, to be achieved by the end of ...

Peter Jackson is Chief Editor of the Yearbook Unit of the UN Department of Public Information, which annually publishes the Yearbook of the United Nations, the most authoritative reference book on the ...

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 ...

Doctor Susan Lieberman, Director of WWF's Species Programme, looks at the way forward to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, increase sustainable development and benefit species conservation.

Voices of Youth: Find out if your country is on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, learn how you can take action, and join a discussion. Cyberschoolbus: See examples of successful ...

Encouraging development has been on the agenda of the United Nations for decades. Pointing to the United Nations Charter, which expresses the determination to “promote social progress and better ...

Much angst is being expressed over the fact that the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are off track. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres sounded the alarm in July: “Halfway to ...

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The United Nations’ ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them. In 2015, the UN General ...