With only five years until the 2030 deadline for achieving the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new international study reveals uneven progress in achieving the goals since their adoption ...

The year 2023 marks the mid-point of the 15-year period envisaged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, targets for global development adopted in September 2015 by all United Nations Member ...

The Human Development Report Office will host a New Alliance Talk at the 3rd Hamburg Sustainability Conference on 30 June at 16:30 CET. The session will bring together global leaders including Laura ...

This year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, which was observed on 13 October 2022, focused on the objective to “Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard ...

LONDON, Sept 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Gender inequality is one of the greatest barriers to human development progress, U.N. officials said as they launched an index on Friday showing the ...

New York, 9 July 2019 – The impacts of climate change and increasing inequality across and within countries are undermining progress on the sustainable development agenda, threatening to reverse many ...

‘Progress’ and ‘development’ are disputed terms these days. But no villager would turn the clock back to how things were in 1985. Those thatched circular huts do still exist, but more and more are ...

I have disagreed with many of former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s policies during his time in power. Yet, credit must be given where it is due. When he envisioned the Kuala Lumpur City Centre ...