This annual report presents the most comprehensive global assessment of progress to date, based on data provided by a large number of international organizations within and outside the United Nations ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - About 800 million people still live in dire poverty and suffer from hunger despite the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) being the most ...

The pursuit of endless industrial growth is chewing through our living planet, producing poverty and threatening our existence. The new Sustainable Development Goals fail to deal with this. The ...

* Leaders urged to honour aid, protectionism pledges * U.N. body says risk global targets will be missed By Fiona Shaikh LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) - World leaders must honour their pledges on aid and ...

Kenya: Safaricom Foundation and the United Nations have called on Kenyans to participate in the crafting of a new set of sustainable development goals (SDGs) for adoption globally from September 2015.

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – ...