This week in New York City, the 27 members of the high-level panel of eminent persons appointed by the U.N. Secretary General will deliver a report providing recommendations on the post-2015 ...
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Kingdom are teaming up for an innovative new programme in Zimbabwe that will enable poor farming households to improve food ...
If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. The United Nations and strategic partners have launched ...
Everyone deserves an education, but the benefits go far beyond just learning: Children who are born to educated mothers are less likely to be stunted or malnourished. Each additional year of maternal ...
As the MDGs era comes to a conclusion with the end of the year, 2016 ushers in the official launch of the bold and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders last ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Today marks the opening of the United Nations Summit in ...
In 2000 the world's leaders agreed on an ambitious plan to drastically reduce global poverty by 2015. Called the Millennium Development Goals, the targets spurred an unprecedented aid effort that ...
Jo Boyden and the Young Lives project receive funding from the Department for International Development, The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The ...
John Podesta writes about how the Millenium Development Goals are working and how we will continue to pursue the achievement of them. At the turn of the new century, every one of the 192 member states ...
As world leaders gather in New York this week to discuss the future of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, critics are warning that many of the targets cannot be evaluated scientifically ...
Today, fewer people go hungry. There are more children attending school. Fewer and fewer people are dying unnecessarily from easily preventable and treatable diseases. Yet with only 500 days until the ...