It gives me great pleasure to chair the opening session of this important workshop on Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to welcome all participants, particularly those ...

At the Millennium Summit in September 2000 the states of the United Nations reaffirmed their commitment to working toward a world in which sustaining development and eliminating poverty would have the ...

This article examines how Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) can be used effectively to empower African women, promote gender equality and help achieve the Millennium Development Goals ...

Today, fewer people go hungry. There are more children attending school. Fewer and fewer people are dying unnecessarily from easily preventable and treatable diseases. Yet with only 500 days until the ...

Eight global millennium development goals were established in 2000 by member states of the United Nations (UN) and endorsed ...

Hardly a day goes by without a news story on some violation of women’s rights. In recent months, appalling incidents of violence against women and girls, from Delhi to Johannesburg to Cleveland, have ...

With the Millennium Development Goals set to expire in 2015, the international development community is pondering what comes next. World leaders agreed upon eight goals as part of a United Nations ...

* Leaders urged to honour aid, protectionism pledges * U.N. body says risk global targets will be missed By Fiona Shaikh LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) - World leaders must honour their pledges on aid and ...