Chinese students earn recognition for gender and climate sports initiative at UN headquarters

The program began in 2024 as a community basketball initiative in Shanghai's Sanlin neighborhood, aimed at increasing ...
webtv.un.org

GOAL OF THE MONTH – Goal 5: Gender Equality

Gender equality is not just a goal — it is the foundation of a fair, peaceful, and sustainable world. Three decades after the landmark Beijing Declaration, equality remains elusive: women still hold ...
NPR

UN members face immense challenges meeting goals on hunger and gender equality

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Mandeep Tiwana, who is attending the UN general assembly as the representative for the civic engagement organization CIVICUS, about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
The Conversation

Want to fight gender inequality? A review of data from 118 countries shows that development aid works

Gender inequality isn’t just unfair — it’s also a drag on the world economy. Giving women the same economic opportunities as men would add about US$12 trillion to global gross domestic product by 2025 ...
Nature

The world’s goals to save humanity are hugely ambitious — but they are still the best option

Eight years ago, the world signed up to an unprecedented project. At a United Nations summit in September 2015, 193 countries agreed to work towards 17 goals with the aim of improving the lives of all ...
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A Realistic Goal? Culture in the Sustainable Development Agenda

Seventeen is a lot. It is surely the sign of a United Nations insider that they can remember the names and numbers (and even the associated colours) of each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals ...
NPR

The U.N. plan to improve the world by 2030 is failing. Does that make it a failure?

What if you made a self-improvement plan and failed to meet your goals. Imagine that in a moment of unusual optimism and resolve, you decided that the only way you were ever going to be the healthy, ...