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by Simon Brandon, Aug 31, 2017 If you have too many things you need to do, it’s best to write them down. Saving the world, it seems, follows the same principle.
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By Adva Saldinger @deveximpact, Jan. 16, 2017 In an environment where trust in CEOs is dropping, distrust in corporations is growing and the markets with the greatest future opportunities are in emerging economies, a group of business and civil society leaders are calling for business models to radically change and become more socially focused.
http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/sdg-2030/lang–en/index.htm?utm_content=buffer7f550&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer After three years of intensive negotiations and dialogue bringing together not only governments, civil society but also millions of ordinary people around the world, UN member states have unanimously agreed what UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has described as the “most inclusive development agenda the world has ever seen”.
By Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star), Apr. 28, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines has assured the international community that it has taken steps to implement its own development agenda side-by-side the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
For growth to go forward, it must be environmentally and socially concordant. The launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and agreements in Paris finally signalled the realisation that we can no longer achieve our economic ambitions by endangering the environment and society. But even as countries agreed on the need to nurture sustainability, it…
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This is part of a series on the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, in collaboration with the Stockholm Resilience Centre. This article focuses on goal 1 – End poverty in all its forms everywhere. The first goal in the soon-to-be minted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is quite a curtain-raiser: it calls on us to work…
Post-2015 Voices around the world are demanding leadership in 2015 on poverty, inequality and climate change. These universal challenges demand global action, and this year presents unprecedented opportunities for achieving the future we want. This September, world leaders will gather at the United Nations in New York to adopt a new agenda for sustainable development.…
The post-2015 development agenda will require trillions in development resources. 1. The post-2015 development agenda, set to be launched at the United Nations Summit in New York this September, will require trillions in development resources, far surpassing current financial flows. Source: Statement by the Heads of the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the…
What are the Sustainable Development Goals? Are they achievable? This @IIED video explains. See video here.
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
“Safety and health at work every day!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
#WearMask #WashHands #Distancing #TakePicturesVideos
Monthly Observances:
March – Women’s Role in History Month
April – Month of Planet Earth
Weekly Observances:
Last Week of March: Protection and Gender Fair Treatment of the Girl Child Week
Last Week of April – World Immunization Week
Daily Observances:
Mar 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transallantic Slave Trade
Mar 27– Earth Hour
Apr 21 – Civil Service Day
Apr 22 – World Earth Day
Apr 28 – World Day for Safety and Health at Work
