The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date ...

The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as the United Nations’ chief initiative for advancing basic living standards and addressing a ...

The U.N. adopted the SDGs in 2015 as the successor to the expiring Millennium Development Goals. The MDGs, adopted at the Millennium Summit in 2000, had eight goals, 21 targets, and 60 indicators ...

Launched in September 2015 by the United Nations (UN) Summit in New York, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a 15-year plan grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights aimed ...

Propeller of poverty reduction and common development in the past eighty yearsEighty years ago, the United Nations was founded on the promise to "promote social progress" and "better standards of life ...

Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has raised concerns over the ongoing strike by public primary school teachers in the Federal Capital Territory, which has left pupils out of ...