Our blog focused on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Amidst the analysis and reports that revealed that the 2030 Agenda implementation is lagging, and that the SDG targets set would not be met on time (see, for example, Walling, 2023), we wanted to …
On 11 October 2023, we observe the International Day of the Girl Child, with the theme: Invest in Girls’ Rights: Our Leadership, Our Well-being. Under this theme, this global platform to advocate for the full spectrum of girls’ rights responds to the call by girls everywhere for change. The call …
I felt enthusiastic and hopeful when the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were announced in 2015 to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Working as an international civil servant then on issues that pertain to human rights and democracy, I was becoming increasingly …
