Aug 28, 2014
While many have their eyes on 2015 Millennium Development Goal milestone and add to discussions of “what’s next,” others continue to work steadily on issues that are essential to ensuring environments enable development, such as the rule of law, the...
May 30, 2014
New Study Issues Big Warning On Global Obesity Rates… Published in The Lancet on May 29, the study, “Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global...
May 29, 2014
If your NGO is concerned with development, women, crime, drugs, corruption, human rights, victim’s rights, child’s rights to mention a few, your efforts to inform, connect and advocate will benefit from the data provided by the UN’s Global...
May 23, 2014
With Facebook and Twitter being the most talked about social networks and anything but tectonic shifts reaching headlines, it’s easy to overlook one of the more significant and tappable changes that have taken place online in the last year. We all know that...
May 21, 2014
Have our own conceptions of the effectiveness of NGOs kept pace with global and technological changes to say nothing of the actual ability of NGOs to effect significant change? Is the trend toward government funding of NGOs helpful or problematic? There are many...
May 19, 2014
The 69th Regular Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 69) will convene at UN Headquarters on Tuesday, 16 September 2014. The General Debate will open on Wednesday, 24 September 2014. The debate’s opening was postponed from Tuesday, 23 September 2014, to...
