Thirteen years after the world set the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), countries have made big strides to meet the eight anti-poverty targets by their 2015 deadline. “In more than a decade of ...

Eveline Herfkens was appointed Executive Coordinator of the UN Millennium Campaign in 2002. The Campaign encourages citizens around the world in their efforts to hold Governments to account for 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 ...

This report was commissioned by the Population Program of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in December 2004. The author was charged with analyzing the United Nations' deliberations that led to ...

Bonn, Germany, 24th May 2008—Well-managed wildlife trade has the potential to deliver significant development benefits for the world’s poor, finds a new report by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade ...

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 ...

Many of the world’s macroeconomists—including here in the IMF—are currently busy reading the daily tea-leaves, attempting to divine whether the sputtering recovery in the advanced economies will hold, ...

Charles Anawo Ameh receives funding from World Health Organisation, UNICEF and UK AID for operational research in 8 countries in Africa and 3 in South Asia. With another deadline around the Millennium ...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted unanimously by the United Nations in 2000 to confront the world’s major development challenges. There are eight MDGs with 21 sub-objectives to be ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This week, CFR senior fellows Stewart Patrick and Isobel Coleman wrote blog posts ...