"One Day on Earth" Film Premieres at U.N. and Around World
'One Day on Earth' is a living time capsule of who we are. We have much to fix -- but we have more going for us, it seems, than not.
'One Day on Earth' is a living time capsule of who we are. We have much to fix -- but we have more going for us, it seems, than not.
Bill Gates | Posted 06.12.2011
If the world comes together on a plan for financing development, the impact on health and development will be enormous.
Devinder Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011
In a significant move, the Supreme Court in India has questioned the very basis of counting the poor in the country. Realising that the poverty line i...
Johann Koss | Posted 05.25.2011
Over the past year, many MDG pledges have made exciting progress. This week, at the 2011 annual meeting, the MDG Pledges initiative is launching its first major progress report.
Ben Leo | Posted 05.25.2011
The United Nations recently published the 2011 World Economic Situation and Prospects report. But the picture that was painted by a highly simplistic brush.
The MDG Advocates | Posted 05.25.2011
Outside of Cancún, governments must do what they have promised: take concrete action to reduce their emissions and work together to make low-carbon development a reality.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
I have been working in Haiti since Christmas 1999. That New Year's Eve I hired my first staff -- my first local partner -- with a handshake at the Ol...
Daniel Hernandez | Posted 05.25.2011
We're behind on our 15-year goal to reduce world poverty by half by 2015, yes. But breakthrough technologies and a focus on women's empowerment may allow us to catch up and save lives as never before.
The MDG Advocates | Posted 05.25.2011
Africa Must Feed Itself BY DR. AKIN ADESINA, DR. WANGARI MAATHAI AND DR. GRAÇA MACHEL Africa is rising. The 2010 Ibrahim Index of African Governan...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Where we no longer must allocate the time and resources to go physically to all corners of the earth -- Facebook, Skype, our email takes us there.
Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2011
In the spring I travelled to Barcelona for the GSM Association's World Congress, with 49,000 participants spread between mobile phone-related 1,300 ve...
Ruth Messinger | Posted 05.25.2011
Perinatal mental illness, a known commodity in the United States, is also widespread in the developing world. For example, one-third of all South African women who give birth will experience some form of depression or anxiety during or shortly after pregnancy.
Kiyotaka Akasaka | Posted 05.25.2011
If one were to judge a forum's importance by the level of participation, then the MDG Summit was clearly a big success: But was it as strong on the substantive side?
The MDG Advocates | Posted 05.25.2011
On October 4-5, the world community will consider the replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria. This is a crucial opportunity to sustain and accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.
Nicholas van Praag | Posted 05.25.2011
Violence is the antithesis of development. It tears down what's been built up. It destroys lives, shortens horizons, and inflicts huge psychological and physical pain.
Tom Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011
The message of the new U.S. development plan is about our interests. Obama made it clear and USAID director Dr. Raj Shah confirmed it.
Paul O'Brien | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama used the gathering of world leaders in New York last week to announce the first-ever US Policy on Global Development, promising that, ...
Posted 05.25.2011
By Chris Herlinger Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) Prominent religious, humanitarian and ethical leaders gave mixed grades this week to progress...
Carol Peasley | Posted 05.25.2011
Investing in girls and women should also be a means of empowering them and putting them at the center of the development debate. They should be at the table when political leaders and donors define how new funds will be allocated.
Reporters Uncensored | Posted 01.31.2012
Bill Clinton is in top form, 25 pounds lighter, looking fresh and energized. To the cheering applause of Richard Branson, the former president greets all and opens the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative.
Jonathan Greenblatt | Posted 05.25.2011
Sanitation is a basic need that could enable a new destiny for billions of people and it is time to apply the same degree of innovation and ingenuity to this problem that has been brought to bear in other fields.
John W. McArthur | Posted 05.25.2011
With five years to go, we pledge our own best efforts to work with communities around the world to help ensure the MDGs are achieved.
Ben Leo | Posted 05.25.2011
Africa's often-mentioned hot spots increasingly have become isolated islands of instability on an otherwise surging continent. Let us put aside the African cliché and instead focus our lens on the stars -- the MDG Trailblazers.
Tony Blair | Posted 05.25.2011
The MDGs are changing lives for the better. As we take stock, we must recognize Africa's progress in the two areas that success with the MDGs depends on: good governance and a thriving private sector.
Naomi Hirabayashi | Posted 05.25.2011
With a diversified panel of speakers working across the eight verticals of MDGs, the Summit highlighted the most recent trends of digital media used for social good.
Jim Luce | Posted 04.24.2012