Category: Reports
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Progress on Millennium Development Goal #1 (Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger)
Photo Credit: UN.ORG In 2000, leaders from 189 nations setup the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, to achieve universal primary education, to promote gender equality and empower women, to reduce child mortality, to improve maternal health, to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, to ensure environmental sustainability and to develop a global…
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Creative and Sustainable Solutions to Youth Unemployment
Of the total population of the world’s 7.1 billion, adolescents and youth make up 1.8 billion. (UNFPA, 2014). It is clear that this same group of people will shape our political, economic and social developments in the years to come. According to The Economist, almost 290 million youth and adolescents in the (15-24) age group…
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Child malaria cut in half
The good news: In its 2013 Malaria Report, WHO reports that “Worldwide, between 2000 and 2012, estimated malaria mortality rates fell by 45% in all age groups and by 51% in children under 5 years of age. If the annual rate of decrease that has occurred over the past 12 years is maintained, then malaria mortality…
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We Can’t Wait: Women, Sanitation and Hygiene 2013
To mark World Toilet Day (November 19, 2013), WaterAid, the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council and Unilever published this excellent resource on the vital importance of safe sanitation to women. As the report states, “Ending the global sanitation crisis is one of the most urgent developmental challenges of the 21st century. By the end of 2011 there…