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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.

Photo credit: University of Zanjan, Iran.

By Ramesh Jaura

NEW YORK (IDN) – The critical role of academia in general and the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) in particular in advancing the goals of the United Nations Charter was underlined when the Organization celebrated the 73rd anniversary of its entry into force on October 24.

In view of the fact that universities play a vital role in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015, UNAI announced its new SDG Hubs around the world. These are UNAI members selected as models for their innovative engagement related to the SDGs.

Goal 17

Photo: Cox’s Bazar deputy commissioner Md Kamal Hossain visiting Rohingya camp Kutupalong. Credit: Md Mojibur Rahman Rana.

By Naimul Haq

DHAKA, Bangladesh (IDN) – Despite a well-coordinated effort to address the Rohingya refugee crisis in Cox’s Bazar, a coastal town bordering Myanmar, some major challenges still need attention.

The local administration admits that with over one million forcibly displaced Myanmar citizens arriving in such a short time, it is indeed difficult to manage the environmental damages and rising crime rates faced by the local people. (P16)  | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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2030 SDGs Game. Credit: Imacocollabo

Oleh Ramesh Jaura dan Katsuhiro Asagiri

BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) – Laporan mengatakan bahwa saat Albert Einstein berusia sekitar lima tahun dan terbaring di tempat tidur, ayahnya memberinya sebuah kompas saku magnetik untuk dimainkan. Dia membolak-balikkannya, bertanya-tanya bagaimana jarum itu selalu tahu untuk menunjuk ke arah utara.

Takeo Inamura dan Nobuhide Fukui berbagi rasa ingin tahu yang sama tentang bagaimana 17 Tujuan Pembangunan Berkelanjutan (SDGs) dari Agenda Tahun 2030 untuk Pembangunan Berkelanjutan, para pemimpin dunia yang menyetujui pada bulan September 2015 di KTT PBB bersejarah di New York, dapat benar-benar mengubah dunia.

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2030 SDGs Game. Credit: Imacocollabo

De Ramesh Jaura y Katsuhiro Asagiri

BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) - Los informes indican que cuando Albert Einstein tenía unos cinco años y estaba confinado en la cama, su padre le dio una brújula magnética para jugar. La giró y la giró, preguntándose cómo la aguja siempre sabía apuntar hacia el norte.

Takeo Inamura y Nobuhide Fukui compartían una profunda curiosidad acerca de cómo los 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible, que los líderes mundiales adoptaron en septiembre de 2015 en una histórica Cumbre de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York, podrían realmente transformar el mundo.

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Photo: The Port of Salvador on All Saints Bay, Bahia, Brazil. As one of the bigger, emerging economies reliant on commodity exports, Brazil can expect some economic improvement, according to a United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report. Credit: World Bank/Mariana Ceratti

By Ronald Joshua

GENEVA (IDN) – Foreign direct investment is critical for developing and emerging market countries. Their companies need the multinationals' funding and expertise to expand their international sales. The countries need private investment in infrastructure, energy, and water to increase jobs and wages. In fact the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 2017 report warned that climate change would hit them the hardest.

Goal 17

Photo: APFC Convener and World Vision International's Sudarshan Reddy Kodooru (with microphone) flanked on his right by Nobuyuki Asai, Program Coordinator in the SGI Office of Peace Affairs in Tokyo; and on his left by Ajit Hazra, World Vision International; and Atallah FitzGibbon, Islamic Relief Wordwide. Credit: SGI

Viewpoint by Sudarshan Reddy Kodooru

The author is Convener of the Asia Pacific Faith-based Coalition (APFC*) for Sustainable Development and Regional Director, Faith & Development, East Asia at World Vision International. The following is based on his speech during APFC's first annual meeting on August 29-31, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan. – The Editor

BANGKOK (IDN) – We live in an age unparalleled by any other and hovering at the intersection of various and often-competing forces. Any traces of the thin veneer of isolation have been wiped away by globalization. Today, we face challenges incomparable in magnitude to any previous age, many look to faith for developmental solutions.

Goal 16

Photo: The Fourth BIMSTEC Summit was held in Kathmandu, Nepal on 30-31 August 2018. Credit: BIMSTEC.

By Sugeeswara Senadhira

The author is Director (Research & International Media), Presidential Secretariat in Colombo. This article first appeared in Ceylon Today on September 3, and is being reproduced with the author's permission. – The Editor

COLOMBO (IDN-INPS) – Sri Lanka, as the new Chair of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) has a special responsibility of ensuring speedy cooperation of the member states of the Bay region. Though this is not an easy task, Sri Lanka is fortunate because it can get maximum support from the regional super economic power, India, for this endeavour.

Goal 17

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By Ramesh Jaura and Katsuhiro Asagiri

BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) – Reports have it that when Albert Einstein was some five years old and confined to bed, his father gave him a magnetic pocket compass to play with. He twisted and turned it, wondering how the needle always knew to point towards the north.

Takeo Inamura and Nobuhide Fukui share a similarly profound curiosity about how the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, world leaders adopted in September 2015 at an historic UN Summit in New York, could really transform the world. (P12) INDONESIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | SPANISH

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Photo: SGI Vice President Hiromasa Ikeda (2nd from left) and Dr. Pérez Esquivel (2nd from right) with two youth representatives presenting joint appeal at a press conference at Rome’s Foreign Press Association on June 5, 2018. Credit: Seikyo Shimbun.

By Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Daisaku Ikeda

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Buddhist philosopher Daisaku Ikeda's son Hiramasa Ikeda, SGI Vice President presented this appeal at a press conference at Rome's Foreign Press Association on June 5. Together with five youth from different countries, Esquivel and Hiromasa Ikeda also presented the statement at a Youth Convention on the evening of June 6 at the popular Ex Dogana performance space in the city. Organized by the Italian affiliate of SERPAJ and Soka Gakkai Italy, it was attended by 800 young people of diverse faiths including representatives of the Young Jewish Union of Italy, the Italian Buddhist Union, the Catholic Church, the Community of Sant’Egidio, the Islamic community of Italy (COREIS) and other local institutions and NGOs. Participants enjoyed music from a traditional Afghan group, “Voice of Nature,” the Soka Millennium Ensemble and DJ Massimiliano Mascaro.

Goal 8

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By Reinhard Jacobsen

BRUSSELS (ACP-IDN) – The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at an historic UN Summit opens a new era for a repositioned African, Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP Group) to continue and deepen its decisive role in supporting all 79 member states "to achieve the 17 SDGs as the basis for the Sustainable Development of their societies and our only home we have for humanity".

The basis and raison d'étre of the ACP is development and this implies "ending poverty in all its forms everywhere" (SDG 1). The unity and solidarity on which the ACP is founded provides a unifying force in adopting measures to end poverty, says a policy paper.

Goal 17

  1. Governments, Partners Asked To Provide Funds, Incentives For Sustainable Development Targets
  2. UN Conference Warns Of Huge Backlogs Before Achieving Global Development Goals
  3. Climate Change Is Driving Up Forced Displacement By Disasters
  4. UN Chief Asks Melinda Gates and Ali Baba's Jack Ma To Head Digital Experts Panel
  5. UN Summer Academy Brings 2030 Development Agenda To Life

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