It gives me great pleasure to chair the opening session of this important workshop on Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to welcome all participants, particularly those ...

At the Millennium Summit in September 2000 the states of the United Nations reaffirmed their commitment to working toward a world in which sustaining development and eliminating poverty would have the ...

This article examines how Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) can be used effectively to empower African women, promote gender equality and help achieve the Millennium Development Goals ...

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 ...

Corporate responsibility could be one of the keys to the Millennium Development Goals. It is the quality, not just the quantity of business activity that determines whether companies contribute to ...

With the Millennium Development Goals set to expire in 2015, the international development community is pondering what comes next. World leaders agreed upon eight goals as part of a United Nations ...

There will be no fair world, no abolition of extreme poverty, as long as the calculus of corruption undermines education, health, trade and the environment. Dramatic reduction of corruption levels is ...

* Leaders urged to honour aid, protectionism pledges * U.N. body says risk global targets will be missed By Fiona Shaikh LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) - World leaders must honour their pledges on aid and ...

Vol. 47, No. 1, Special Issue (41): Researching Education Quality in Low-Income Countries: Politics, Processes and Practice (FEBRUARY 2011), pp. 119-133 (15 pages) Published By: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.

In 2015, the seventieth UN General Assembly adopted an ambitious set of development goals for improving economic, environmental, and social conditions worldwide by 2030. The seventeen Sustainable ...