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Children Demand Inclusion In Water And Sanitation Programmes At UNICEF Forum

Children and youth from more than 12 countries urged world leaders at an international conference to include them in water, sanitation and hygiene programmes. At least 60 c...

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How Can Countries Finance The Sustainable Development Goals?

Countries will start a new chapter in their development this year with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Designed to replace the Millennium Developme...

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UNICEF: Dalit Girls Most Excluded From Primary Education In India

A report just released by UNICEF and UNESCO on out of school children in India highlights that Dalit girls have the highest primary school exclusion rate in India. The repo...

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Nikhil Seth: A New Vision For Sustainable Development

In his more than two decades with the United Nations, Nikhil Seth has played a pivotal role in the development of first the Millennium Development Goals in 2000 and now the...

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Time to tread sustainable development path

The idea of sustainable development is that raw capitalism is far too powerful for its own good. Global capitalism is a juggernaut, with the world economy now doubling in s...

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Cellphones for Women in Developing Nations Aid Ascent From Poverty

Here is what life is like for a woman with no bank account in a developing country. She keeps her savings hidden — in pots, under mattresses, in fields. She constantl...

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How Can We Empower Women In Agriculture To End Hunger?

Measuring the inclusion of women in the sector is key to creating well-targeted policies that will help farmers increase their yields and feed more hungry people If we&rsqu...

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How Can We Empower Women In Agriculture To End Hunger?

Measuring the inclusion of women in the sector is key to creating well-targeted policies that will help farmers increase their yields and feed more hungry people If we??e g...

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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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Gender Equality and Earth’s Future

Twenty years ago, the adoption by 189 governments of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action marked a turning point in the history of women’s rights. This pro...

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