During the World Conference on Youth this year, an advocacy toolkit was released aiming to support young people to carry out their own advocacy campaign so that the young global movement for education is growing and they can be part of it.
This years’ theme for the first of a new cycle of BRICS Summits was "Inclusive Growth: Sustainable Solutions”. Discussions at the meeting in the north-eastern city of Fortaleza, Brazil, centred on how the countries can work together to boost economic growth and promote social development, while recognising that education is a key factor to their success.
The global number of out-of-school children aged 6 to 11 is still as high as 58 million, showing little overall improvement since 2007, according to a new United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report, which also reveals that positive change is possible, spotlighting success in 17 countries that have reversed that trend over the past decade.
Earlier this month, Global Campaign for Aid Transparency launched a new campaign Road to 2015: Open Data for Sustainable Development at the United Nations Headquarters.
The recommendations are a dramatic shift from the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs), which expire at the end of 2015. They call for a ‘data and information revolution’ and put transparency and accountability at the heart of this new framework.
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The United Nations’ post-2015 development agenda is the next phase of the Millennium Development Goals, which provided a 15-year road map to tackle poverty and foster development in the world’s poorest countries. But as putting together the new agenda moves forward, it is becoming clear that the critical needs of women may be pushed aside.
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UK parliamentarians and civil society examined how governments, businesses, practitioners and academics can collaborate more effectively to ensure that health markets in developing countries work better for the world's poorest communities.
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National health authorities, WHO and partners are working around the clock to contain the Ebola outbreak affecting Sierra Leone’s eastern districts of Kailahun and Kenema.