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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - About 800 million people still live in dire poverty and suffer from hunger despite the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) being the most ...

That 140 heads of state and governments have left their busy schedules to attend a week-long United Nations Millennium Development Goals summit is a pointer to the importance attached to the goals.

This annual report presents the most comprehensive global assessment of progress to date, based on data provided by a large number of international organizations within and outside the United Nations ...

The UN's Progress Report 2002 of Millenium Development Goals (MDG) confirms what we already know. Nepal is unlikely to achieve the 2015 goals of reducing poverty to 21 percent, providing universal ...

Eight years ago, the world signed up to an unprecedented project. At a United Nations summit in September 2015, 193 countries agreed to work towards 17 goals with the aim of improving the lives of all ...

Much angst is being expressed over the fact that the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are off track. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres sounded the alarm in July: “Halfway to ...

Hans Rosling, professor of International Health at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden attempted to demystify some of the Millennium Development Goals for the experts gathered at the World ...