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SDG Goal 3: Good Health Allan Maleche This month’s UN summit for the adoption of the post-2015 global development agenda will provide an opportunity for States to endorse 17 new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).1  The goals, built…

SDG Goal 16: Peace and Justice Donna Perry, Christian Guillermet Fernández, David Fernández Puyana The inclusion of peace as a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) is an important milestone and achievement. Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for…

SDG Goal 16: Peace and Justice Lena Kähler and Maria Kristiansen While the UN and State leaders are preparing for the September Summit, which will give life to the hard fought 2030 Agenda, the world is facing a refugee crisis in which millions of…

SDG Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals Fran Quigley Part of my job is to work alongside my law students as we represent low-income persons in our Indianapolis-based clinic. Our community does not have a strong public transit system, and many of…

SDG Goal 8: Good Jobs and Economic Growth Angela Duger The proposed 2030 agenda for sustainable development, likely to be approved later this September, contains 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets.  Three of these targets…

SDG Goal 8: Good Jobs and Economic Growth Gillian MacNaughton and Diane F. Frey Full employment and decent work are key components of a strategy to eliminate poverty, as most people must work to avoid poverty. Decent work is also a social…

SDG Goal 3: Good Health Brian Citro The proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) appear to be an improvement, or at least a thoughtful reaction, to some persistent criticisms of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Among these criticisms…

SDG Goal 3: Good Health By Rebecca Brown At the upcoming Summit to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the UN will adopt the broadest political agreement to date, which in its Preamble announces the goals of eradicating poverty and…

SDG Goal 13: Climate Action Cecilia Sorensen and Jay Lemery In the upcoming weeks, the UN will choose how seriously to commit political resources to halt climate change. Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Agenda)…

SDG Goal 3: Good Health Elizabeth D. Gibbons After much public consultation and global negotiation, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has been agreed, along with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 targets.1 The Agenda…