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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: Soil erosion is a major problem for Benin's farmers. Nuclear techniques help scientists find its exact causes, so that they can tackle erosion. Credit: E. Fulajtar | IAEA.

By Emil Fulajtar and Joanne Liou*

VIENNA (IDN) – Harmless traces from nuclear testing more than half a century ago are helping researchers assess soil erosion rates. In Africa, about 65 percent of the continent's farmland is affected by erosion-induced losses of topsoil and soil nutrients, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Benin is among those countries severely impacted by soil erosion, which poses a major problem for economic development since agriculture represents approximately 35 percent of the country’s GDP and 80 percent of its export income. A recent study applied a nuclear technique to assess rates of soil erosion and support land conservation in Benin.

Goal 2

Photo: Omid, ten months malnourished child suffering from pneumonia is treated in Mofleh Pediatric Hospital in the province of Herat province, west of Afghanistan on January 29, 2019. © UNICEF/UN0280720/Hashimi AFP-Services

By Sean Buchanan

NEW YOK (IDN) – Pneumonia, an entirely preventable disease, claimed the lives of 800,000 children – or one child every 39 seconds – under the age of five last year, but funding to improve survival rates continues to lag, according to a new analysis.

Most deaths occurred among children under the age of two, and almost 153,000 within the first month of life, says a UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) analysis produced in September 2019, based on estimates from the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Maternal and Child Epidemiology Estimation Group (MCEE) and the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. (P21) INDONESIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | SPANISH

Goal 3

Photo credit: Institute for Security Studies.

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power

“Ending poverty in all its forms everywhere” is the first of 17 Goals of the United Nations. The latest data indicate that it would cost only $78 billion a year – less than 0.1% of Global GDP – to abolish extreme poverty. Indeed, there is an argument for giving the abolition of the worst poverty priority over funding the combating of global warming. It’s a much, much cheaper cause than what is being estimated as necessary for stalling global warming – $2.5 trillion each year on the energy issue, overwhelmingly targeted on renewables. (P20)  HINDI | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | SPANISH

Goal 2

Photo: Afro-Latinos. Source: World Bank.

Viewpoint by Natalia Kanem

Following are extensive extracts from the Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the High-level Meeting on "Accelerating global action for the fulfilment of rights for Afro-descendant people in Latin America and the Caribbean", San José, Costa Rica, in October 2019.

NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – Leave no one behind – that is the global community’s ambitious pledge. And the Sustainable Development Goals call on us to reach those furthest behind first.

Goal 10

Image credit: CMS COP13.

By Rita Joshi

BONN (IDN) – Based on an ancient Sanskrit saying, the theme ‘Migratory species connect the planet and together we welcome them home’ will guide the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS COP13) in Gandhinagar, a planned city in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

Some 1,500 representatives of national governments, international organizations, scientists, conservation groups and other wildlife experts – together with the associated meetings of the Standing Committee – will discuss the topic from February 15 to 22, 2020.

Goal 13+14+15

Image: Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949 and the Protocol Additional adopted in 1977. Source: history.com

 Viewpoint by Rene Wadlow, President, Association of World Citizens

GENEVA (IDN) – The entry of Turkish troops into what they call a "safe zone" on the frontier of Turkey and northeast Syria and especially the actions of Turkish-backed Syrian militias has raised in a dramatic way the issue of respect of international humanitarian law. Regular military personnel of all countries are theoretically informed of the rules of the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949 and the Protocol Additional adopted in 1977. (P19) GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | TURKISH

Goal 16

फोटो: वर्ष 1943 के बंगाल के अकाल के दौरान कलकत्ता की सड़कों पर बच्चे के साथ फटे कपड़ों में भीख मांगती माँ (बाएं), और वर्ष 1943 के बंगाल के अकाल के दौरान कलकत्ता में फुटपाथ पर एक परिवार (दाएं)। स्रोत: विकिपीडिया

मनीष उप्रेती F.R.A.S. और जैनेंद्र कर्ण का दृष्टिकोण *

नई दिल्ली (IDN) – संख्याओं के साथ सौदा करना नुकसान पहुंचा सकता है और यह किसी व्यक्ति को अन्य क्षेत्रों में निर्वाह की तलाश करने पर मजबूर कर सकता है। इसमें कोई आश्चर्य की बात नहीं है कि पिछली शताब्दी के सबसे प्रभावशाली कवि ने वर्ष 1922 में The Waste Land नामक कविता लिखी थी, जब उन्हें लॉयड्स, लंदन में एक सादे अंग्रेजी बैंक, के विदेशी लेन-देन विभाग में कर्त्तव्यनिष्ठा से नियुक्त किया गया था।

एक अन्य मामला जिसमें कोई व्यक्ति पीटर बोन, जो वेलिंगबोरो से हैं और प्रशिक्षण द्वारा एक एकाउंटेंट और इंग्लैंड में कंजर्वेटिव पार्टी के सदस्य हैं, और रशडेन, जिन्हें नवंबर 2018 में स्पष्ट रूप से कहने में कोई हिचक नहीं हुई कि भारतीय गणराज्य को अपने संसाधनों को कैसे और कहां खर्च करना चाहिए, के बारे में विचार कर सकता है। उत्तरवर्ती प्रसिद्ध कामोद्दीपक Par Updesh Kushal Bahutere की याद दिलाता है।

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Photo: Mother in shreds of clothing with child begging on the streets of Calcutta during the Bengal famine of 1943 (left), and a family on the sidewalk in Calcutta during the Bengal famine of 1943 (right). Source: Wikipedia

Viewpoint by Manish Uprety F.R.A.S. and Jainendra Karn *

NEW DELHI (IDN) – Dealing with numbers can take a toll and might make one seek fulfillment in other spheres. No wonder the most influential poet of the last Century penned The Waste Land in 1922 when he was dutifully employed with the foreign transactions department of Lloyd’s, an austere English bank in London. (P18) HINDI | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | KOREAN

Goal 1

Photo credit: World Economic Forum.

“Some people change when they see the light; others when they feel the heat”. – Caroline Schoeder, former U.S. Congress member

Viewpoint by Rene Wadlow, President, Association of World Citizens

GENEVA (IDN) – The UN Security Council Resolution 1325 of 2000  is a commitment to work resolutely toward greater protection of women and girls in conflict zones, to appoint more women in UN peacekeeping operations and ensuring that women would increasingly become more active participants in decision-making processes, especially at “peace table” negotiations.

Goal 5

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  3. Liberia To Lift the Poorest Out of Poverty With $100 In Cash
  4. Smallholder Farmers in Africa Get Lifeline from EU
  5. Burgeoning Urban Population Will Decide the Future of Africa

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