Consensus Reached on New Sustainable Development Agenda to be adopted by World Leaders in September (press release)

Ambitious new agenda would end poverty by 2030 and universally promote shared economic prosperity, social development and environmental protection The 193 Member States of the United Nations reached agreement today on the outcome document that will constitute the new sustainable development agenda that will be adopted this September by world leaders at the Sustainable Development […]

Transdiaspora Network Supports UNAIDS Public Statement as a Free-AIDS Generation Advocate – “The right to health must not be negotiated away for trade gains.”

PRESS STATEMENT UNAIDS calls on trade negotiators to uphold governments’ commitments to public health and access to medicines GENEVA, 28 July 2015—As the world celebrates the achievement of reaching 15 million people with HIV treatment and commits to ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030, UNAIDS reminds countries of the urgent need to ensure that new […]

New Report ‘Defeating AIDS–Advancing Global Health’

      Press Release World must drastically accelerate AIDS efforts or face more HIV infections and deaths than five years ago. The report shows that innovations in the AIDS response should be exploited to meet future global health challenges. LONDON, 25 June 2015—Countries most affected by HIV must focus on stopping new HIV infections and expanding […]

Statement by Nicole Cardinal, Save the Children International

Informal Interactive Hearings with Representatives of Non-governmental Organizations, Civil Society, Major Groups and the Private Sector on the Post-2015 Development Agenda General Assembly Hall, United Nations, New York, 27 May 2015 ‘Monitoring, Review and Follow-up’ Introduction 1. Thank-you for the opportunity to speak today. I am responding on behalf of my Afghan colleague Zubaida Akbar […]

TDN Cross-cultural Youth Exchange Fellowship

Taking note from the ECOSOC 2015 Youth Forum, the 53rd Session of Commission for Social Development (CSocD53), the 59th session on the Status of Women (CSW59), the Declaration of the Inaugural World Women’s Health and Development Forum held by the Royal Academy of Science International Trust (RASIT), and the 48th session of the Commission on […]