With just 500 days left before the Millennium Development Goals expire, it is important to acknowledge all that they have spurred the world to achieve. This column is part of the MDG 500 milestone ...

Voices of Youth: Find out if your country is on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, learn how you can take action, and join a discussion. Cyberschoolbus: See examples of successful ...

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 ...

September 26, 2013 — In 2000, leaders of 189 nations meeting as the Millennium Summit in New York agreed to pursue a set of Millennium Development Goals for improving human well-being in developing ...

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Editor's note: For more on global health, stay tuned for the upcoming September issue of Health Affairs. In 2000, nearly 200 world leaders came together and agreed on a set of objectives intended to ...

Becoming a mother in sub-Saharan Africa is more dangerous than climbing Mount Everest. In Chad, the odds of dying during pregnancy or childbirth are one in 15; in Sierra Leone, one in 21. Around the ...

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.

The Obama Administration’s National Security Strategy drops today. No big surprises for those who have been following Administration rhetoric and action over the past eighteen months or so. The United ...

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 ...

The Millennium Campus Network (MCN) and the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) are proud to present the Millennium Fellowship Class of 2020, an ambitious program to help make the Sustainable ...