Millennium development goals

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• Getting a nutrition goal is great, but we need a more ambitious target

  Guardian Professional, 20 Oct 2014: Nutrition was neglected in the millennium development goals, so we need tougher targets to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030 writes Glen Tarman
  

• Wanted: pupils to campaign for education for all

  30 Sep 2014: A competition is looking for two young people to visit Bangladesh and then spread the word in the UK about the right to schooling

• MDGs failed to include human rights - will we make that mistake again?

  Guardian Professional, 26 Sep 2014: Reflecting on this week’s UNGA, Amnesty’s head, Salil Shetty, says states cannot continue to shirk commitments they made 60 years ago
  

• Michelle Obama challenges world to emulate girls' courage in education

  25 Sep 2014: US first lady cites commitment of Malala Yousafzai and abducted Nigerian schoolgirls, as millennium goal on education slips away

• UN begins talks on SDGs, ‘carrying the hopes of millions and millions’

  24 Sep 2014: Battle looms over the number of development goals expected to replace the MDGs. Cameron joins fray by proposing fewer goals

• Cost of gathering data on new development goals could be crippling

  24 Sep 2014: Bjorn Lomborg: Have we met the millennium development goals? Which targets are closest? Honestly, we don’t really know because we don’t have the data

• Expert calls for moral crusade to bring clean water and sanitation to billions

  24 Sep 2014: Expert says sustainable development goals are not enough to provide hundreds of millions with clean water and sanitation

• Fighting for change: better from the boardroom or the street?

  Guardian Professional, 22 Sep 2014: NGOs are aflutter for the UN General Assembly and Climate Summit but how effective are these spaces for creating change? Asks Danny Sriskandarajah

• More than 200 million people no longer extremely malnourished

  16 Sep 2014: The FAO credits agricultural investments and successful government policies with cutting undernutrition by 10%

• Message to the UN: stop the loss of trillions of dollars to tax abuse

  Guardian Professional, 10 Sep 2014: Making the pursuit of tax explicit in the new sustainable development goals would provide governments with vital funds, writes Thomas Pogge

• Why Asia is probably poorer than we think

  9 Sep 2014: Jayati Ghosh: Asia’s ‘success’ in reducing poverty uses a flawed system for measuring income and ignores food insecurity

• The literacy injustice: 493 million women still can't read

  Guardian Professional, 8 Sep 2014:

  Giving women a second chance at literacy will increase their earning power and give their children a brighter future

• There's poverty in the UK, but we are better off calling it inequality

  5 Sep 2014:

  If you think the world is too divided into those who have the cream and those who don't, you ain't seen nothing yet, says John Lanchester

• Humans of New York blogger hits the road for world tour

  5 Sep 2014: Street photographer Brandon Stanton is visiting 11 countries with the UN to raise awareness of the millennium development goals
  

• Nutrition: there's no quick fix for hunger or obesity

  Sponsored feature, Guardian Professional, 21 Aug 2014: Marc Van Ameringen speaks to Eliza Anyangwe about MDG progress and trying to make an impact in a fractured sector

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