{"id":37455,"date":"2018-09-07T07:10:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T12:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37455"},"modified":"2018-09-07T07:10:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T12:10:23","slug":"sustainable-development-goals-no-more-complacency-urgency-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37455","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Development Goals: No More Complacency, Urgency Needed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/09\/07\/sustainable-development-goals-no-more-complacency-urgency-needed\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sustainable Development Goals: No More Complacency, Urgency Needed!<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>\u201cWe face mounting challenges in the form of growing numbers of conflicts, rising inequality, erosion of human rights, unprecedented global humanitarian crisis\u2026.climatechange is moving faster than we are; yet we see insufficient political will to meet commitments.\u201d Remarked UN Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterresin the closing of the High Level Political Forum (HLPF).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are ashamed of our indicators on gender equality, continuing domestic violence\u2026we are not doing enough\u201d lamented the Minister from Dominican Republic, an island nation in the Caribbean, in his country context at the HLPF.<\/p>\n<p>These are some alarming admissions by the world leaders who met during the HLPF at the UN headquarters in New York from 9 \u2013 18 July 2018. It is the major review point for the 2030 Agenda and this year 46 nations presented their voluntary national reviews (VNR) in a packed schedule that included participation by governments, UN, civil society, private companies and others.<\/p>\n<p>The Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in September 2015, is into its third year of implementation. There have been some achievements in basic education, maternal and child mortality situations etc. These are encouraging signs, but the inequality of benefit distribution paints a shoddy picture i.e. three quarters of children affected by stunting live in Southern Asia and sub- Saharan Africa.Meanwhile, access to energy has also increased over the last years.<\/p>\n<p>It is worthwhile to discuss countries\u2019 progress on the SDGs as reported at the HLPF. Senegal reported on its social protection mechanisms, which cover health, education etc for street children, women and people in informal sectors. While Switzerland has a well-established social protection system and mechanism to protect environment and forest, it is facing challenges on rising inequality and groups like women and persons with disabilities are being left behind. Laos is growing fast with 7% GDP growth and 84% rural electrification \u2013 while it has a green growth strategy, it admits to the widening inequality between rural and urban areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sustainable Development Goals: No More Complacency, Urgency Needed! \u201cWe face mounting challenges in the form of growing numbers of conflicts, rising inequality, erosion of human rights, unprecedented global humanitarian crisis\u2026.climatechange is moving faster than we are; yet we see insufficient political will to meet commitments.\u201d Remarked UN Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterresin the closing of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2146,5493,1795,425,21556,1913],"class_list":["post-37455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-conflict","tag-counterpunch","tag-human-rights","tag-inequality","tag-pradeep-baisakh","tag-sustainable-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37456,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37455\/revisions\/37456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}