Women’s Human Rights and the SDGs (HLPF 2017)
In July 2017, a second set of countries presented their progress on the SDGs to the United Nations. Civil society (NGOs and other nonprofits) raised concerns on many fronts, including the [...]
New Partnerships between Religions and International Organizations Tackle Sustainable Development
An article from One Country about new faith partnerships.
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Food Sovereignty, Women & Sustainability, 3/18/16 at UN CSW
This panel explored access to healthy food as a lens toward understanding the interconnections of all our equity and sustainability issues.
Faith at the United Nations: Peace, Sustainable Development Goals, and Interfaith Understanding
Faith can be a key transformative ingredient of global change. Faith at the United Nations: Peace, Sustainable Development Goals, and Interfaith Understanding.
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TOU Events at the Parliament of the World’s Religions Conference
Check out the Temple of Understanding’s events at the 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions!
Report on the 65th Annual DPI/NGO Conference Declaration
The 65th Annual DPI/NGO Conference Declaration was adopted by the conference on August 29, 2014. The TOU’s Grove Harris participated on the drafting team that worked to incorporate contributions [...]
United Nations DPI/NGO Conference Declares MDGs “Must Be” Met by 2015
The declaration called upon “all governments, agencies, corporations and individuals to deliver on their human rights obligations to over a billion people living in poverty, by committing the [...]
Report: Summit on the Millennium Development Goals
The MDGs adopted by the United Nations Millennium Declaration in 2000 committed nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty with timebound targets to be accomplished by 2015.
