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 ...

NEW YORK — Eight years on from the largest meeting of world leaders where promises injected momentum into the fight against poverty, the effort is at a crossroads: will the developed world accelerate ...

As the deadline for the millennium development goals approaches, experts take stock of the successes, failures, and oversights, and look ahead to the next phase -- the sustainable development goals.

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 ...

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 ...

The ubiquitous ‘development goals’ chosen by the United Nations – first Millennium (MDGs) in 2000 and now Sustainable (SDGs) – were and are and will be a distraction from the real work of fighting ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the dawn of the 21st century, 189 UN member states adopted the Millennium Declaration as the first common framework for promoting global development, committing to eight goals (six covering health ...

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 ...