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September 03, 2021
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN AFGHANISTAN AND HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT
Image credit: Flickr/Barbara Millucci On 15th August, Afghanistan’s capital city – Kabul – was captured by the Taliban after a nine-day sweeping offensive across the country. The escalation of…
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August 12, 2021
FIVE ACTIVISTS TO FOLLOW ON INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY
2021 has been a year of recovery and trial but in the midst of difficult global challenges. During this pandemic and throughout lockdowns around the world, young people have continued…
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August 11, 2021
THE ENERGY TRANSITION NEEDS BUSINESS TO VALUE PURPOSE ALONGSIDE PROFIT
There is no mistaking the importance of addressing the way we all live and work — and the impact we are having on our planet. With a rise in social…
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June 25, 2021
WHY WE NEED TO #ACTFOREQUAL
Despite some progress, no country has achieved gender equality and women’s rights are still undermined around the world. The pandemic has threatened existing progress and with less than a decade…
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June 14, 2021
THIS G7 DIDN’T SCORE THE GOALS WE NEED
This blog is written by Alice Macdonald, Director of Policy and Campaigns at Project Everyone, the organisation behind the Global Goals campaign. She has spent the past 15 years working…
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June 10, 2021
WHY JUNE IS A BIG MONTH FOR THE GOALS
Credit: London Design Biennale by Ed Reeve We are at a critical moment for the Global Goals and with less than a decade left to achieve them, there’s no time…
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June 10, 2021
FASHION AVENGERS
Fashion Avengers is a collection of leading fashion industry forces coming together to inspire and accelerate progress towards the United Nations’ Global Goals. Our aim is to raise awareness of…
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June 02, 2021
EXPERIENCE THE GLOBAL GOALS IN AR
We are pleased to be partnering with Google Arts & Culture to bring the Global Goals to everyone. Wherever you are in the world, you can select the goal you’re…
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May 30, 2021
YOUTH POWER HACKS – AN UPDATE
Over the past few months, the Youth Power Panel has been working with Restless Development, Project Everyone and Unilever to deliver the Youth Power Hacks: six online hackathons held in…
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May 27, 2021
FOREST FOR CHANGE – THE GLOBAL GOALS PAVILION
Forest For Change – The Global Goals Pavilion. Render courtesy Es Devlin studio Es Devlin and Richard Curtis bring Forest for Change to Somerset House in support of UN Global…
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May 21, 2021
WHY ARTS AND CULTURE ARE IMPORTANT FOR THE GLOBAL GOALS?
Screenwriter, director and UN SDGs Advocate Richard Curtis recently spoke about culture and sustainable development at the Culture High-level Event convened by the President of the General Assembly. Here’s his…
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April 06, 2021
SPORT HAS THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD
On the International Day for Sport for Development and Peace, Laureus Sport for Good Chief Executive, Adam Fraser, writes about the important role sports can play to achieve the Global…
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March 22, 2021
IS YOUR COMPANY A WATER STEWARD?
COVID-19 has brought into sharp focus the critical role of clean water, sanitation and hygiene as the first line of defense against the pandemic and other diseases — along with…
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March 14, 2021
THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS ARE GOOD FOR BUSINESS
This is the first in a series about the role of business in achieving the SDGs. The Sustainable Development Goals celebrated their fifth anniversary last September during a year that…
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March 08, 2021
LAUNCHED: THE GOOGLE.ORG IMPACT CHALLENGE FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS
We are excited to announce the launch of the Google.org Impact Challenge for Women and Girls – an open call to support organisations across the world who are empowering women and girls…
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March 06, 2021
THREE ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
Did you know that no country in the world has achieved gender equality? Yep, you read that correctly! That’s why it’s important that you join us in celebrating one of…
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March 02, 2021
WHY THE GOALS MATTER TO THE FASHION INDUSTRY
Fashion is an integral part of our lives: we engage with it every day simply by wearing clothes. It is one of the most influential industries in the world, found…
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February 06, 2021
FIVE WAYS TO HELP END FGM/C
Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting (FGM/C) is defined as the partial or total removal of external female genitalia or other injuries to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. Over 200 million girls…
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January 24, 2021
WHY WE’RE ADVOCATING FOR CLIMATE EDUCATION
COVID-19 has put a spotlight on education like never before. With over a billion students facing some kind of disruption to their learning, the virus has exposed the depths of…
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January 08, 2021
THE GOALS ARE THE ANSWER
2020 created a gaping hole in progress made towards our 2030 targets and exposed the failures in our society. As we enter 2021, we need to continue working together to…
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December 23, 2020
ACTIVISM IN ACTION
2020 has been an incredibly difficult year for everyone. But despite the circumstances we’re in and the issues we face, campaigners and activists have continued to show their determination to…
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December 18, 2020
CELEBRATING ONE YEAR OF BUSINESS AVENGERS THROUGH CREATIVE ILLUSTRATION
The Global Goals Business Avengers are coming to the end of their first year together! To celebrate the end of Year 1 and the start of Year 2 we decided…
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December 15, 2020
YOUTH POWER HACKS
Today, applications open for the Youth Power Hacks: six online hackathons held in six countries over three months, bringing together hundreds of young people to hack solutions to help get…
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November 18, 2020
16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM
Today marks the start of the UN’s 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence. During this period, we want to put a spotlight on activists and organisations around the world who are…
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October 26, 2020
WIKI LOVES SDGS: A COMMUNITY OF GLOBAL GOALS FACTIVISTS
It goes without saying that 2020 has halted our plans. From key events such as the World Oceans Summit, Generation Equality as well as the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26)…
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October 02, 2020
CHOOSE LIFE
A new campaign released today – Choose Life – calls for meaningful and ambitious climate action from the UK government as we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic 2nd October 2020:…
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September 25, 2020
WHY WE SHOULD ALL BE FACTIVISTS
Written by Claire Melamed, CEO of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, Jessica Espey, Director SDSN TReNDS, and Alice Macdonald, Campaigns Director at Project Everyone. Back in 2013 –…
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September 07, 2020
THE PANDEMIC IS A PORTAL
The COVID-19 crisis can and must be a turning point in history. The pandemic has highlighted systemic failings, fragilities and inequalities that define today’s world. But, it has also offered…
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September 14, 2020
UN CALLS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION IN SPECIAL 2020 BROADCAST
A new 30-minute film – Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times – sets out the action needed to build a better world, as COVID-19 threatens decade of global progress….
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September 02, 2020
BECOME A FACTIVIST
This has been a year like no other. As Arundhati Roy said, COVID-19 has ‘made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt’ but we have a chance…
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August 18, 2020
GLOBAL GOALS WEEK
Global Goals Week 2020: Partners Unite in Call to Recover Better Ahead of Sustainable Development Goals’ 5th Anniversary Global Goals Week (18-26 September, plus an expanded calendar throughout September and…
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July 24, 2020
A VIRTUAL AND INCLUSIVE HIGH-LEVEL POLITICAL FORUM
Rosario Diaz Garavito is a member of the Youth Power Panel (YPP) and the founder and Chief Executive Director of The Millennials Movement. Bethel is the Campaigns Officer at Project…
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July 16, 2020
A LETTER TO G20 FINANCE MINISTERS
Dear Allies, This rather technical letter has been put together by Jamie Drummond and some eminent economists and just sent to the world’s leading finance ministers. It outlines what should be agreed…
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June 30, 2020
ACTIVISM ACTUALLY…IS ALL AROUND
This year Cannes Lions Festival of creativity moved entirely online, becoming LIONS LIVE. LIONS LIVE was aimed at anyone in the global creative community who believes in creative possibility and…
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June 26, 2020
WORLD’S LARGEST LESSON LIVE
Millie Bobby Brown and Sofia Carson joined United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed and Executive Director of UNICEF, Henrietta Fore, in the World’s Largest Lesson Live, to encourage teens to…
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June 20, 2020
MR. BEAN’S ESSENTIAL COVID-19 CHECKLIST
Mr Bean is following the World Health Organisation’s advice on how to stay safe from #COVID19. This is how you can #BeSafe too With cases of COVID-19 continuing to rise globally, “Mr Bean’s…
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June 20, 2020
WORLD REFUGEE DAY
The past few months have been some of the most trying times our world has faced. This pandemic caused a huge loss of life and normality, with families torn apart,…
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June 12, 2020
#BLACKLIVESMATTER
As protests and demonstrations continue around the world, we want to reaffirm what The Global Goals #Goal10 and #Goal16 stand for.
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June 09, 2020
LEADERS CALL ON PRIME MINISTER TO CREATE SOCIALLY JUST AND GREEN RECOVERY FROM COVID-19
Richard Curtis CBE, Paul Polman, Michael Izza and leaders of more than 100 renowned companies, charities, universities, and trade associations call on the UK Government to ensure the Sustainable Development…
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June 05, 2020
SDG ADVOCATES BACK GAVI REPLENISHMENT AS IT BEATS ITS TARGET AND RAISES BILLIONS
Global Goal 3 is a promise to achieve good health and wellbeing for all. To achieve that, we must invest in vaccinations for everyone to protect the world’s population against…
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May 22, 2020
INCREASED SUPPORT FOR GLOBAL SOLIDARITY AS PEOPLE UNITE AROUND THE WORLD FOR A DAY OF ACTION
New UN research shows a surge in support for strengthened solidarity across the world. The research is published as hundreds of civil society and community organisations come together for a…
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May 12, 2020
THE VACCINE AGAINST COVID-RISK
Open Budgets, Open Response, Open Recovery. There’s a damaging rumor doing the rounds in Kibera, Nairobi’s massive informal settlement: that COVID-19 is a fabrication invented by the country’s elite to…
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May 04, 2020
SIX WORLD LEADERS PUT THE SDGS AT THE HEART OF THE RECOVERY
The Council of the European Union have released a global response on working together to make the world get better. “This is a defining moment for the global community. By…
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May 01, 2020
5 REASONS WHY THE GLOBAL GOALS ARE THE BEST PLAN TO BUILD BACK BETTER
Alice Macdonald is the Director of Policy and Campaigns at Project Everyone, the organisation behind the Global Goals campaign. She has spent the past 15 years working across politics and…
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April 22, 2020
EARTH DAY
Earth Day is a stark reminder that we are behind on achieving The Global Goals but, it’s also an opportunity to focus on the urgent action needed to protect our…
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April 06, 2020
STATEMENT BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SDG ADVOCATES AND SDG ADVOCATE ALUMNI ON COVID-19
The Secretary-General’s SDG Advocates and SDG Advocate Alumni today jointly released the following statement regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. We, the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Advocates and…
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January 30, 2020
HISTORIC ALLIANCE OF 2,020 CAMPAIGNERS UNITE TO ISSUE AN OPEN LETTER DEMANDING WORLD LEADERS TACKLE THE EMERGENCY FACING PEOPLE AND PLANET
Signatories include world-leading activists and campaigners from Dr. Jane Goodall DBE and Malala Yousafzai, to leaders and organisers of movements including Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter; Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili, Bring…
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January 23, 2020
YOUNG ACTIVISTS LAUNCH PARTNERSHIP FOR URGENT ACTION ON THE GLOBAL GOALS
Today, leading young activists under the age of 30, from twelve countries have formed the Youth Power Panel, launching a global initiative to accelerate youth action for the Global Goals…
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September 27, 2019
THE GLOBAL GOALS ARE IN BUSINESS: 17 GLOBAL GIANTS JOIN FORCES TO DELIVER THE SDGS
Cementing 2020 as the emergency year of action, 17 global giants representing over $500 billion in revenue and 900,000 employees are joining forces under a new coalition called the “Business…
