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Grassroots solutions: the most powerful tools to fight poverty and inequality
… Goals are to be achieved. First published in UNA-UK's "SDGs: the people's agenda" publication. "It is only … social needs, such as access to healthcare, childcare, education and housing, had an impact on their economic … to affordable energy. William French, Head of International Media at The Elders, explains why it has had such a big …
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How women are breaking the cycle of violence, insecurity and poverty
… empowerment of women and girls and their ability to access education and health care. … Health Employment and Economic Growth, TED speaker and MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow. She was recently named a 2017 … the realisation of the wider Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Kofi Annan is joined by fellow Elders Gro Harlem …
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The success or failure of Rio+20 will be a defining moment for today’s youth
… but will also have a positive impact on health, education and economic opportunities.” … of more than 300 non-profit organisations. Media inquiries media@theElders.org … collective action."In an opinion piece published in newspapers around the world, Gro Brundtland and Fernando H …
jonathan - 07/21/2022 - 10:31
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A New Vision for Multilateral Cooperation
… our borders or size of our armies, but on the depth of our education systems and the extent of global access to water, … “billions to trillions” infrastructure agenda with the SDGs requires careful attention to ensure that civil society … session moderated by Julie Gichuru, entrepreneur and Kenyan media personality. …
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Gro Harlem Brundtland: the 2018 Barbara Ward Lecture
… everything from manufacturing and heavy industry to education and the service sector. Those of us who … via the cowardly cloak of anonymity provided by social media. This is why those of us who still believe in … and powerful rejection of racism, hate speech, “fake news” and the politics of division. Let it be our …
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The Elders in North and South Korea
… the realisation of the wider Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Kofi Annan is joined by fellow Elders Gro Harlem … North Korea, the United States and South Korea. Read the media release. … and South East Asia to reach Seoul. Having missed years of education, the school helps them to adjust to life in South …
jonathan - 07/21/2022 - 10:31
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Bold action is needed to make sustainable development a reality
… a clean and safe environment, affordable health care, education and sustainable energy supplies has never been … for action, and helps to hold leaders to account. The SDGs would be a useful additional tool to measure progress … of our children and grandchildren will depend on it. Media inquiries: media@theElders.org …
jonathan - 07/21/2022 - 10:31
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Report: The Elders’ visit to the Korean Peninsula and China, April 2011
… related to the people's basic rights to food, health and education directly with officials, and to take up ways to … in the DRPK; they also briefed representatives of the media, foreign diplomats and members of think tanks. One of … the realisation of the wider Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Kofi Annan is joined by fellow Elders Gro Harlem …
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Time's up for violence against women and girls
… my entire life: as a freedom fighter in Mozambique, as Education Minister when my country had achieved its … responsible to account before the law, slogans on social media risk ringing hollow in an echo-chamber of the … human rights and progress towards the realisation of the SDGs are interrelated and mutually reinforcing. …
Isobel - 07/21/2022 - 10:31
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New technology as a disruptive global force
… the decades to come will be how we secure equal access to education, not only in the key formative years of youth, but … of the disruptive spirit behind the internet and social media technology boom of recent years. But in … rights, and prevent the spread of so-called “fake news” and hate speech. In the words of a recent …
Isobel - 07/21/2022 - 10:31