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Meeting SDGs by 2030: progress and challenges

Around halfway mark since the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2023, the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, while addressing the annual UN General Assembly session that year,…

Debt crisis and SDGs

‘Today, 3.3 billion people live in countries that spend more on interest payments than on health, and 2.1 billion live in countries that spend more on interest payments than on…

SDGs in schools

AFTER the Millennium Development Goals failed to yield satisfactory results, the world needed a more holistic approach that could provide solutions sustainable in nature and that would have a global…

Bold action to rescue SDGs in Pakistan

AS the New Year beckons, and the world begins to count down the final six years of the United Nations’ Agenda 2030, our shared vision of decisive progress towards sustainable…

Peaceful N-programme: Attainment of SDGs

When the United Nations adopted the 2030 Development Agenda in 2015, Pakistan fully embraced all its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), which has pioneered…

Autism and SDGs

THE 2024 observance of World Autism Day is aligned with the implementation status and progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition representing human evolution and neurodiversity…

Democratising SDGs

GEOPOLITICS and structural imbalances are adding to the global mix of crises, necessitating urgency in action to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. The SDGs, adopted in 2015, are a set…

SDG 16 & financial crimes: challenges

Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels— Sustainable Development Goal 16, United Nations…

Championing SDGs

PAKISTAN is one of the countries which adopted the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 — also called ‘global goals’ — in order to attain lasting development, peace,…

Data revolution for SDGs

Last month, I attended two workshops organized by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on user-producer dialogue to sense data needs and calibrate with statistical products – a commendable step…