Sustainable Development Goals 2015

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Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

EU and TURKEY FIND A NEW AGREEMENT ON REFUGEES: WILL IT LAST AND WHAT WILL ITS IMPLICATIONS BE?

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Will the new impetus on EU-Turkey relationships. caused by the refugees crisis, lead to Turkey membership to the EU? It won' t be easy at all but for sure the negotiations will help Turkey become a better state.

Hear the expert Ajaya Dixit on Climate Change in Nepal

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We report an interesting interview with Ajaya Dixit, Institution for Social and Environmental Transition-Nepal

ROLE OF BUSINESS IN REDUCING DISASTER RISKS: REPORT FROM ESCAP

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Within the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reducation, private sector can play a key role, according to a recent publication published by the UN regional office for Asia Pacific, UNESCAP

OF RABID RANTS AND FANATICAL DEFENCES: HOW WE DISREGARD A CITIZEN’S FEAR

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The Indian actor Aamir Khan and his wife feel unsafe in India. Instead of understanding why, we go ahead and ridicule them both.

Mirabel Sisters, "The Butterflies" the heros behind the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

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it all started in the Republica Domenicana, as an act of resistance against dictator Trujillo where 3 sisters paid a very high price for their courage. While we celebrate every day many single heros, we the westerners have no clues about so many hidden and valuable stories of courage, tenacity and change. What do the western education system and media teach us? But Mario Vargas Llosa saved u

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women: Statement of UN WOMEN EXECUTIVE Director

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Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, former Vice President of South Africa, says "We have made progress in improving the laws that distinguish these acts and others as ones of violence and invasion of human rights. Some 125 countries have laws against sexual harassment, 119 have laws against domestic violence, but only 52 countries have laws on marital rape". But we all know that is not enough

16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign

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16 days of campaigning while important is not enough. Nevertheless man and women must rally together in this global campaign and possibly and hopefully follow ups will happen, linking up the cause of ending violence against women with other issues related to women' empowerment and a more inclusive societies all over the world

Nepal and Love

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Reflections on the current situation in Nepal; can we reach love in the world?

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