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Will we see real progress in addressing violence against women and girls at the 57th Commission on The Status of Women?

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Member states, women’s rights advocates and organisations, trade unions, religious institutions and organizations and human rights organisations will once again gather in New York for the annual two-week long meeting to evaluate progress on gender equality, identify challenges, set global standards and formulate concrete policies to promote gender equality and women's empowerment worldwide.

Opening statement of Michelle Bachelet at CSW57: Time for action: Prevent and end violence against women and girls

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I am delighted to be here with all of you at this 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

UN Women: Culture must not progress on stopping gender violence

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Culture and religion must not be allowed to block proposals to eliminate and prevent violence against women and girls, the head of UN Women said on the eve of what is expected to be the largest global summit ever convened to discuss the issue.

UNESCO organising debate on future of education in the post- 2015 development era

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Youth, government representatives and civil society organizations from across the Asia-Pacific today debate the future of education in the post-2015 development era.

Sudan Selected to Shape the Global Development Agenda

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Representatives of the Government of Sudan, Civil society, academia, media, INGOs and the United Nations met today in Khartoum to discuss the background paper prepared by a group of national experts  on Sudan views for the post 2015 global development agenda.

Pacific issues featured in International Conference in Dili, Timor- Leste

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Fiji is participating at the “International Conference on the Post-2015 Development Agenda- Development for all: Stop conflict, build states and eradicate poverty” in East Timor.

New Development Goals for a New World

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International aid or development assistance programs have been around for about 60 years.

Caste inequalities recognised in post- 2015 development agenda

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As the discussion on how to take the global development agenda beyond the original Millennium Development Goals intensifies, IDSN recommends that issues related to caste discrimination be included in this important framework.

International Conference on the Post- 2015 Development Agenda begins in Dili

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In the next days over two hundred people will fly into Timor-Leste to discuss the World Development Agenda for 2015 and beyond.

CIVICUS alliance examines the human rights situations in China, Jordan, Mexico, Nigeria

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CIVICUS makes interventions for the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR), which scrutinizes each country's human rights record every four years.

High- Level Global Consultation on Post- 2015 Development Agenda Kicks off in South Africa this week

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Matters of Governance and the post 2015 Development Agenda shall come into scrutiny mid- this week at a high-level African Thematic Consultation taking place in Midrand - Johannesburg, South Africa.

Nigeria: The Euphoria of Post- 2015 Health Agenda

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Many developing countries including Nigeria are not on track to achieve the health MDGs in reducing maternal death by 75% and reducing child death by about 66% by 2015.

National Dialogue on Post- 2015 Development Agenda to be launched today

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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on behalf of the UN system in The Gambia and other stakeholders will today, Tuesday 26th launch the National Dialogue on Post 2015 Development Agenda at the Friendship Hostel in Bakau.

Award to inspire communities in poverty eradication

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As part of a campaign to spur further action in poverty eradication and health development goals, the office of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s special envoy for the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) launched what it called the Indonesia MDG Awards.

Pencerah Nusantara to boost progress on MDGs: Envoy

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Ufara Zuwasti from the office of the special envoy to the President of the Republic of Indonesia for the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) said on Monday that the office was gearing up for significant progress toward achieving the MDG targets as there were only two years left ahead the 2015 deadline.

Nigeria Consultations on the Post- 2015 Development Agenda

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With less than three years to the deadlines in achieving the MDGs, the United Nations and state parties to the Millennium Declaration are putting various processes in place to evolve a successor framework which will reflect the views of people across divides and proffer solutions to current and emerging development challenges.

UN deputy chief addresses millennium development goals, Korean Peninsula issues

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UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson on Friday called for efforts to improve maternal health and sanitation issues around the world.

Inequalities Consultations Culminate on Public Dialogue Leadership Meeting

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The Public Dialogue and Leadership Meeting on Addressing Inequalities in the Post-2015 Development Agenda have taken place in Copenhagen, Denmark, to review the final report and findings of the Global Thematic Consultation on Addressing Inequalities in the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

In Post- 2015 Debate, a Call to Mainstream Disaster Management

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A key player in drafting a new global development agenda has joined the call to “mainstream” disaster management post-2015.

High- Level Dialogue on Health in the Post- 2015 Development Agenda

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The High-level Dialogue on Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda is part of a United Nations led global conversation as to what development goals the global community should set after the 2015, the date set for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Ahmad Alhendawi, newly appointed UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth, on his new role

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On 15 February 2013, the newly appointed Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth, Ahmad Alhendawi, was sworn in at United Nations (UN) headquarters.

Own the Goals: What the Millennium Development Goals Have Accomplished

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For more than a decade, the Millennium Development Goals -- a set of time-bound targets agreed on by heads of state in 2000 -- have unified, galvanized, and expanded efforts to help the world's poorest people.

The Millennium Development Goals and Gender Equality

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The Millennium Development Goals are a UN initiative of eight goals to be achieved by 2015.

Millennium Development Goals Not Lost, Says Yughoyono

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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called on Indonesians not to write off the country’s hopes of achieving the United Nations-mandated Millennium Development Goals.

Why Language Matters for the Millennium Development Goals

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“It is increasingly being recognized that progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is not happening equitably.

Give grassroots group a real say on what comes next in development

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For 13 years international development policy has rested on a set of goals written in "relative casualness".

UN calls on countries to ensure access to water and sanitation in development agenda

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The United Nations and its partners today called on the international community to prioritize ensuring access to water and sanitation to vulnerable populations in the ‘post-2015’ development agenda, stressing this would help combat inequality and promote human rights and sustainability.

Justice and Development: Challenges to the Legal Empowerment of the Poor

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We have made great strides in reducing poverty and enabling human development.

Improving Education Governance and Financing: A Bigger Role for the Private Sector

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What are the key obstacles in financing education? Who should be held accountable for ensuring that children receive a good quality education? These questions are at the heart of the debate going on in the post-2015 development agenda’s Global Consultation on Education, which is wrapping up this week.

Q & A: Building a Post- 2015 Global Development Agenda

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As the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaches, different United Nations agencies are beginning to discuss what the post-2015 Development Agenda will encompass.

Request for proposal: Design, development and technical maintenance support for the new CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) online platform (extended)

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Request for proposal: Design, development and technical maintenance support for the new CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) online platform

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New Lancet Series: NCDs and the Post- 2015 Development Agenda

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The global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is one of the biggest threats to international health and development, confirms a major new Series in the Lancet today.

Lag in Millennium Development Goals

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The unachieved goals include poverty alleviation, improving literacy rate and ratio of girls in schools, bringing down infant and maternal mortality ratios, improving access to water and sanitation and funding of social sector programmes.

The (Tangled) Road Map to September’s UN General Assembly Meeting on the Post- 2015 Development Agenda

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Preliminary results from a global survey asking people to choose the most important issues for a better world reveals education is at the very top of the list.

Public Dialogue and Leadership Meeting on Addressing Inequalities in the Post- 2015 Development Agenda

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The Public Dialogue and Leadership Meeting on Addressing Inequalities in the Post-2015 Development Agenda took place from 18-19 February 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Panel discussion: Towards a disability- inclusive post- 2015 development framework: Regional Perspectives

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The United Nations General Assembly will hold a High-Level Meeting on Disability and Development with the overarching theme “The way forward: a disability inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond”.

Anyim, Okonjo- Iweala to lead talks on post- 2015 development agenda

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As part of its efforts to develop an inclusive post-2015 development agenda, Precious Gbeneol, the senior special assistant to the President on Millennium Development Goals, has announced that her office in collaboration with the United Nations System in Nigeria is organising a stakeholders’ consultative forum.

Health in the post- 2015 development agenda

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As the deadline for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, the UN is driving a global consultation around a new global development agenda post 2015.

Promise to mainstream disability in development agenda

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The 51st session of the Commission for Social Development concluded at the UN Headquarters in New York yesterday.

Challenges of post- 2015 framework

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European Commissioner for Environment, Janez Potočnik spoke yesterday at the 27th Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme held in Nairobi, Kenya and addressed the critical issues of poverty and sustainability of prosperity.

Water in the Post- 2015 Development Agenda

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Following the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in June 2012, the United Nations are facilitating an open consultation to identify priorities from citizens and stakeholders around the world for the post-2015 development agenda, as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will reach their target date in 2015.

Post- 2015

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For the debate on what should follow the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) when they expire in 2015, a number of processes have been put in place to seek inputs from country, regional and global levels, into the post-2015 development agenda and framework.

A Post- 2015 Jobs Goal: 500 Million New Paid Jobs by 2030

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There’s a lot of interest in an ‘employment goal’ as part of the post-2015 agenda.

Proposals on Education Post- 2015: Lots of ambition but mind the gaps

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This week we launched ODI’s new Future Development Goals Tracker.

UNDP’s Clark: balancing water, food, energy key to post- 2015 goals

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Global development goals due to replace current anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) when they expire in 2015 could be unified by a concept that calls for an integrated view of economic growth and development, said Helen Clark, head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Seventh Regional EST Forum in Asia and Global Consultation on Sustainable Transport in the Post-2015 Development Agenda

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The integrated event of Seventh Regional EST Forum in Asia and Global Consultation on Sustainable Transport in the post-2015 Development Agenda will be held on 23‐25 April 2013 in Bali, Indonesia.

A Post- 2015 Cry for Quality Education… But Who Hears It?

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With the all but impossible task of deciphering global priorities – let alone goals and strategies to achieve them – the post-2015 United Nations development process got a dose of clarity recently.

Beyond Averages: Averages Inequalities for Post- 2015

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Since September last year, UNICEF and UN Women have been supporting an open consultation on Addressing Inequalities in relation to the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

The Future of the Millennium Development Goals

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On February 11th, the United Nations Foundation organized a panel on the United Nation's Post- 2015 Development Agenda, featuring Mr.

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