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SDGs for All

SDGs for All is a joint media project of the global news organization International Press Syndicate (INPS) and the lay Buddhist network Soka Gakkai International (SGI). It aims to promote the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative goals and targets. It offers in-depth news and analyses of local, national, regional and global action for people, planet and prosperity. This project website is also a reference point for discussions, decisions and substantive actions related to 17 goals and 169 targets to move the world onto a sustainable and resilient path.

Project Articles

Photo: Youths of Rocket and Space group in Kathmandu brainstorm on how to make their presentations on Sexual and Reproductive Rights more effective. Credit: Stella Paul | IDN-INPS

By Stella Paul

KATHMANDU (IDN) – 21-year old Pabitra Bhattarai is a shy young woman with a soft voice and a ready smile. But, ask her about sexual health services and the shyness vanishes in an instant as she speaks passionately of how youths of her country must have rights to such services.

“Our country runs on the shoulders of young people. So, we can’t risk having a country full of young people with HIV. We must have full access to sexual and reproductive health services (SRHR),” she says, suddenly sounding far more mature than her age. (P35) HINDI | INDONESIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | KOREAN TEXT VERSION PDF | TAGALOG | THAI | URDU

Goal 3

Photo credit: Fabiola Ortiz | IDN-INPS

By Fabíola Ortiz

MARRAKECH (IDN) – Establishing a clear path forward and including women and girls in global efforts on climate change were some of the biggest challenges the delegations and non-state actors faced at the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference in Marrakech.

Formally known as the Twenty-Second Conference of Parties (COP22), the conference had a special day (November 14) for discussing exclusively gender issues within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

“Study after study has shown that women are the most vulnerable to climate change and that's why there is a need for strong leadership on this issue,” said UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa. (P34) ARABIC (PDF) | HINDI | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | PORTUGUESE | SPANISH | SWAHILI | TAGALOG | TURKISH

Goal 5

Photo: An overview of the SGI-EIC event at the UN. Credit: Tsuneo Yabusaki.

By Rodney Reynolds

UNITED NATIONS (IDN) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who has continued to reiterate the key role to be played by youth in the implementation of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, points out that many young people across the world have been disproportionately affected by economic crises and recession.

“As torch bearers of the new development agenda, you have a critical role to play in ending poverty, inequality, hunger and environmental degradation. Your actions will be central in ushering in an era in which no one is left behind,” he told a gathering of youth. (P 33) ARABIC (PDF) | HINDI | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | PORTUGUESE | SPANISH | SWAHILI | TAGALOG | TURKISH

Goal 8

Photo: Roundtable. Credit: Nobuyuki Asai | SGI

By Jaya Ramachandran

GENEVA (IDN) - Representatives of faith-based organizations (FBOs), United Nations agencies, NGOs and academic institutions have stressed the need for engaging with local faith communities to reduce vulnerability to disaster risk, listening to and taking into account the voices especially of women who are often worst affected.

A round-table ahead of the International Day of Disaster Reduction observed on October 13 also pleaded for supporting local faith communities with local disaster risk reduction (DRR) activities, and maximizing the contribution of FBOs, by ‘using’ their spiritual capital. (P 32) ARABIC | CHINESE TEXT VERSION PDF | INDONESIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF |  PORTUGUESE | SPANISH | THAI | TURKISH

Goal 11

Photo: Vladimer Vaishvili | UNDP Georgia

By Jaya Ramachandran

BERLIN | BRUSSELS (IDN) - Unless adequate steps are taken with relentless determination, the core objective of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed by all member states of the United Nations in September 2015, which recommend that "no one be left behind", will not be achieved in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

This is the crux of a United Nations report titled 'Progress at Risk', published on October 12 in Brussels. Goals 8 and 10 of the SDGs – aiming to "promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all" and "reduce inequality within and among countries" – are being ignored. (P31) JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

Goal 8

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (second from left) with Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, former President of Iceland, on his left.

By Lowana Veal

REYKJAVIK (IDN) - With over 2,000 participants, including 400 speakers, the fourth Arctic Circle Assembly in Iceland's capital Reykjavik was a hive of activity and networking on everything to do with the Arctic. The event has become the largest Arctic event globally.

The concept of the gathering October 7-9 was devised by Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, who until a few months ago had been President of Iceland and had put considerable time into Arctic matters and climate change. Grimsson still plays a central role in the Assembly. (P30) JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

Goal 13+14+15

Photo: Artificial limbs at the UXO Information Centre In Vientiane made in Laos for people whose limbs were blown off by the Unexploded American bombs. Credit: Kalinga Seneviratne | IDN-IPS

By Kalinga Seneviratne

VIENTIANE (IDN) – U.S. President Barack Obama's early September visit to Laos helped to focus attention on one of the most horrendous war crimes in history, the bombing of the small landlocked Southeast Asian country during the Indochina War in the 1960s and 1970s, and its massive human and development costs.

The Laotians made use of the visit of both Obama and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon for the ASEAN and East Asia Summits to launch their own Sustainable Development Goal 18 to reduce the impact of unexploded ordnance (UXO) on development and economic activities. (P29) CHINESE TEXT VERSION PDF | HINDI | INDONESIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | SPANISH | TAGALOG | THAI

Goal 16

Photo: Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventieth session on 28 September 2015 at the United Nations in New York. UN Photo/Kim Haughton.

Viewpoint by Nelsy Lizarazo*

QUITO (IDN) - I visited to San Pablo 15 years ago and it was clearly the poorest neighbourhood of Portoviejo, the regional capital of Manabí Province.

Then, there was no drinking water. Families could not even imagine the possibility of free basic education for all, and secondary education even less. You could not walk on the streets after 5 in the evening and the health centre had neither sufficient medical staff nor medicine to cover the neighbourhood’s needs.

I returned to San Pablo at the beginning of September this year. (P28) CHINESE TEXT VERSION PDF | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | SPANISH

Goal 1

Photo: Uniformed children in class in Ha Nqabeni primary school, Lesotho. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

By Majara Molupe

MASERU (IDN) - The United Nations in Lesotho is set to help the Mountain Kingdom implement Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in particular Goal One: End Poverty in all its manifestations, including extreme poverty, over the next 15 years in order to achieve the 2030 Agenda, comprising 17 Goals approved by UN member states on September 25, 2015.

Sylvia Tiisetso Khabele, the UN Volunteer on UN Communications told IDN that the key priorities of the world body's work on SDGs in 2016 include strengthening national capacities and those of the UN system for implementation of the Agenda 2030. (P27) GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

Goal 1

Photo: Heliconius doris Linnaeus butterfly of Costa Rica. Credit: Wikimedia Com-mons.

By Jose Rafael Quesada*

SAN JOSE (IDN) – Costa Rica, a small Central American country with a population of barely 5 million inhabitants, has a high human development index (ranking 69th worldwide) and is considered a consolidated democracy in Latin America.

High investments in education, good development of social security and high levels of openness and competitiveness in international markets make Costa Rica a candidate for membership of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). (P26) JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | SPANISH

Goal 1

  1. UN Turns to World's Youth for Achieving 2030 Agenda
  2. Thursday's Date with Calls for a Fairer Chile
  3. Security Council Updated on Conflicts Causing Severe Hunger
  4. Reforestation in Oxapampa: Peru’s Challenges and Priorities
  5. Youth Empowerment Crucial in Achieving SDGs

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