Archive: 2015

SDG Goals Carmel Williams and Alison Blaiklock Last weekend at the UN General Assembly, world leaders adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 targets with much celebration. It had taken three years of political…

SDG goal 6: clean water and sanitation Inga Winkler and Virginia Roaf Much effort has gone into elaborating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the human rights community has made significant strides in integrating human rights into the…

SDG Goal 3: Good Health Damiano de Felice and Danny Edwards The United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda will be held in New York later this week. The draft outcome document, titled “Transforming our world: the…

SDG Goal 3: Good Health Jennifer J. K. Rasanathan, Benjamin Mason Meier, Kumanan Rasanathan This week, countries will adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) following three years of discussions on what should succeed the Millennium…

SDG Goal 3: Good Health Gavin Yamey Transforming Our World, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which is likely to be adopted next week by UN Member States, contains astonishingly bold and ambitious aspirations for transforming global…

SDG Goal 3: Good Health Allan Maleche This month’s UN summit for the adoption of the post-2015 global development agenda will provide an opportunity for States to endorse 17 new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).1  The goals, built…