The year 2023 marks the mid-point of the 15-year period envisaged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, targets for global development adopted in September 2015 by all United Nations Member ...

Human development progress is experiencing an unprecedented slowdown according to a new report released Tuesday by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Instead of seeing sustained recovery ...

LONDON, Sept 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Gender inequality is one of the greatest barriers to human development progress, U.N. officials said as they launched an index on Friday showing the ...