Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals focus the efforts of the world community on achieving significant, measurable improvements in people's lives.

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Margaret Farley RSM

Margaret Farley RSM is Gilbert L. Stark Professor Emerita of Christian Ethics at Yale University Divinity School.

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UN - Real (By Cathy Solano)

My first view of the UN was on a Monday afternoon and I wasn’t that impressed. The 63rd GA had just finished, the metal barricades were still...

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Keynote Address: Ingrid Betancourt: In a world that is pregnant with threat- Where is the Hope? Who has the Courage?

In a world that is pregnant with threat- Where is the Hope? Who has the Courage?

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Protection of Internally Displaced Persons – the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

Currently there are 26 million internally displaced people who have had to flee their homes because of conflict, climate change or because of...

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Addressing General Assembly, Pope stresses major UN role on raft of issues

Pope Benedict XVI today stressed the United Nations’ major role in seeking a better world as he highlighted, during an address to the General...

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Sheila Curran RSM

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Climate change is an issue of human rights by Mary Robinson

Sixty years ago today, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the cornerstone document created in the...

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Video interviews with 14 scholars and other experts

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Scholasticah Nganda RSM

A Kenyan woman by birth, Scholasticah Nganda RSM went to school with the Sisters of Mercy in Kenya, taught with the Mercies in their school...

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