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2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
A Realistic Goal? Culture in the Sustainable Development Agenda
Stephen Wyber
Far from being restricted to those Sustainable Development Goals that explicitly touch on culture, governments are highlighting connections to culture across the 2030 Agenda.
Bianca Hemmingsen, Sanjana Marpadga and Alarcos Cieza
Diabetes across Life Stages: A Growing Global Challenge
A life-course approach is foundational for implementation of the World Health Organization Global Diabetes Compact. Every stage of life presents unique risks, needs and opportunities for intervention.
Carlos García-Soto
Rebuilding Trust in Multilateral Governance: Lessons from the Seabed to COP 30
Whether on climate, biodiversity or the deep ocean, public confidence in how global institutions make decisions has become as important as the decisions themselves.
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The Second World Summit for Social Development: It’s Time to Deliver Solutions
With the expected adoption of the Doha Political Declaration, the Second World Summit for Social Development offers a chance to accelerate implementation of the 2030 Agenda and address today’s social challenges.
Max-Otto Baumann and Sebastian Haug
United Nations Development Work Should Engage All Member States
Established North–South dynamics have been explicitly challenged by the 2030 Agenda, which sets out the Sustainable Development Goals as a framework for "developed and developing countries alike”.
Paul Heslop and Sonia Pabley
The Lasting Promise of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention
The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) has established a global norm rejecting anti-personnel mines as indiscriminate weapons with no place in modern warfare.
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Access to Information: A Cornerstone of Sustainable Development, Human Rights and Environmental Resilience
Access to information is the bridge that allows citizens to demand justice, journalists to expose corruption, and communities to secure basic services.
Mauricio Escanero
Financing for Development and the Spirit of Monterrey: A Beacon of Multilateralism for Improving Global Economic Governance
With the Monterrey process, we opened a path for the United Nations to fulfil its potential as the spearhead for improved global economic governance that fully supports equitable and sustainable development.
Tulia Ackson
Protecting Our Democratic Systems through Dialogue, Justice and Delivery
By protecting and enhancing democratic institutions, we increase the chances of justice, peace and equitable development.
Robert Floyd
The International Day Against Nuclear Tests 2025: Remembering the Legacy, Renewing Our Commitment to a Nuclear-Test Ban
By prohibiting nuclear test explosions, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty transformed decades of aspiration into a shared commitment.
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What does it take to be a United Nations worker in some of the world’s most difficult and dangerous locations?
How are UN humanitarians, human rights advocates, prosecutors, development experts, climate leaders and peacekeepers improving our world? Stationed in all reaches of the world and witness to suffering and atrocities, how are they helping people and coping themselves?
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Vol. XLVI No. 1 & 2 2009
We Must Disarm
This special double issue looks at the major issues surrounding disarmament, and includes essays on landmines; war-affected children; small arms; girls in war; and the future of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.14
Vol. LV No. 1 2018
The Quest for Water
“The Quest for Water” focuses on ensuring availability and sustainable management of water for all. The articles explore important issues such as ecosystems in the global water cycle and the role of gender and social inclusion in achieving the water-related goals and targets. This issue of the digital magazine of the UN system “buoys” the launch of the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018-2028. ©Front cover by Bob Sherman Photography.
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The State of the World's Children 2025 - Ending child poverty: Our shared imperative
Poverty poisons childhood.
It claims the lives of children, undermines their health and development, and constrains their learning. Poverty is a denial of children’s fundamental rights. And its impact reaches all of us.
Today’s children also face a convergence of crises – rising conflict, climate shocks, and funding shortfalls – that are destroying livelihoods, childhoods, and futures. The urgency for action has never been greater.
Advancing Together | 2025 UN DESA Report
Advancing Together – Eight decades of progress towards sustainable development for all
As the United Nations marks its 80th anniversary in 2025, this report by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) traces the evolution of sustainable development within the UN system. It highlights the Organization’s role in shaping both the understanding and the practical application of sustainable development.
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