Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This year—2015—is an auspicious moment for global development. In September, as ...
3 October 2024 - Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2024, the sixth joint publication by UN DESA and UN Women, was launched during the Summit of the Future week. The ...
Today, 740 million women make their living in the informal economy with limited access to social protection, public services and infrastructure that could increase their productivity and income ...
The Covid-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine crisis and the acute food shortage in Africa are among the factors delaying the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, according to the ...
UNITED NATIONS – The head of UN Women says world leaders attending an annual meeting on the status of women have a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to improve the lives of women and girls. Phumzile ...
It is generally acknowledged that many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will not be met in Africa by the year 2030. Often, goals one (no poverty) and two (zero hunger) get mentioned as far ...
This class surveys major texts in the development of English as global and imperial literature from the epic Beowulf (c. 700) to Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, ...