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SDG SERIES: National Health Equity Strategies to Implement the Global Promise of SDGs
SDG Goal 3: Good Health
Eric A. Friedman
“No one will be left behind.”1 The bold promise at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) must guide their implementation. This requires utterly transforming the lives and opportunities of…
SDG SERIES: With SDGs Now Adopted, Human Rights Must Inform Implementation and Accountability
SDG Goals
Carmel Williams and Alison Blaiklock
Last weekend at the UN General Assembly, world leaders adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 targets with much celebration. It had taken three years of political…
SDG SERIES: Progress on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene through SDG 6? Only if the Focus Shifts to Eliminating Inequalities
SDG goal 6: clean water and sanitation
Inga Winkler and Virginia Roaf
Much effort has gone into elaborating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the human rights community has made significant strides in integrating human rights into the…
SDG SERIES: The Access to Medicine Index and Accountability of Pharmaceutical Companies
SDG Goal 3: Good Health
Damiano de Felice and Danny Edwards
The United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda will be held in New York later this week. The draft outcome document, titled “Transforming our world: the…
SDG SERIES: Opportunities for Realizing the Child’s Right to Health Under the SDGs
SDG Goal 3: Good Health
Jennifer J. K. Rasanathan, Benjamin Mason Meier, Kumanan Rasanathan
This week, countries will adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) following three years of discussions on what should succeed the Millennium…
SDG SERIES: The World’s Poor are Being Denied the Right to Share in Scientific Advancement
SDG Goal 3: Good Health
Gavin Yamey
Transforming Our World, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which is likely to be adopted next week by UN Member States, contains astonishingly bold and ambitious aspirations for transforming global…
SDG SERIES: Are SDGs the Vehicle to End AIDS by 2030? Only if Driven by Human Rights
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 SERIES: Transforming our World: Reflections on the Sustainable Development Goal for Peace
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 SERIES: SDGs in the Face of a Global Refugee Crisis: Leaving millions behind?
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 SERIES: SDGs vs Trade Agreements: Not a Fair Fight
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…