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Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognize that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. All countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this plan. We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet. We are determined to take the bold and transformative steps which are urgently needed to shift the world on to a sustainable and resilient path. As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets which we are announcing today demonstrate the scale and ambition of this new universal Agenda. They seek to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what they did not achieve. They seek to realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. They are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental. The Goals and targets will stimulate action over the next 15 years in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet. 
Feminist Perspectives on Security and the Role of Women in Peacebuilding - Interview with Feminist Scholar Priscyll Anctil Avoine Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) This audio is an interview with Priscyll Anctil, a feminist researcher on security at Lund University in Sweden. It focuses on feminist security research, which examines the various forms and impacts of security through a gender lens. 
Our Common Agenda: Report of the Secretary-General Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) “Our Common Agenda” report looks ahead to the next 25 years and represents the Secretary-General’s vision on the future of global cooperation and reinvigorating inclusive, networked, and effective multilateralism. The Secretary-General presented his report to the General Assembly in September 2021 before the end of the 75th session of the General Assembly. 
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021 Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) As the pandemic continues to unfold, The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021 outlines some significant impacts in many areas that are already apparent. The global extreme poverty rate rose for the first time in over 20 years, and 119 to 124 million people were pushed back into extreme poverty in 2020. There is a risk of a generational catastrophe regarding schooling, where an additional 101 million children have fallen below the minimum reading proficiency level, potentially wiping out two decades of education gains. Women have faced increased domestic violence, child marriage is projected to rise after a decline in recent years, and unpaid and underpaid care work is increasingly and disproportionately falling on the shoulders of women and girls, impacting educational and income opportunities and health. Notwithstanding the global economic slowdown, concentrations of major greenhouse gases continue to increase. With the global average temperature reaching about 1.2°C above pre-industrial levels, the climate crisis has well and truly arrived, and its impacts are being felt across the world. The pandemic has also brought immense financial challenges, especially for developing countries – with a significant rise in debt distress and dramatic decreases in foreign direct investment and trade. Yet, with a surge in global solidarity and leadership from the highest political level, countries can still deliver on the 2030 Agenda and the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change. A global vaccination plan, designed and implemented by the countries that can produce vaccines today or will be able to do so if properly supported, is an urgent first step in that direction. A recommitment by Governments, cities, businesses, and industries to ensure that the recovery reduces carbon emissions, conserves natural resources, creates better jobs, advances gender equality and tackles growing poverty and inequalities is a further imperative. 
The Sustainable development goals report 2016 Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) This inaugural report on the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a first accounting of where the world stands at the start of our collective journey to 2030. The report analyses selected indicators from the global indicator framework for which data are available as examples to highlight some critical gaps and challenges. The list of SDG indicators agreed upon by the UN Statistical Commission in March 2016 will be subject to refinements and improvements as methods and data availability improve. Every journey has a beginning and an end. Plotting that journey and establishing key milestones along the way requires accessible, timely and reliable disaggregated data. The data requirements for the global indicators are almost as unprecedented as the SDGs themselves and constitute a tremendous challenge to all countries. Nevertheless, fulfilling these requirements through building national statistical capacity is an essential step in establishing where we are now, charting a way forward and bringing our collective vision closer to reality 
2017 UN Global Citizenship Education Seminar Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) 2017 UN GCED SeminarThe Role of Global Citizenship Education in the 2030 Agenda and Beyond: How does global citizenship education (SDG Target 4.7) contribute to the values and vision of the United Nations? 
Address by Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the Copenhagen Conference: Education for Intercultural Understanding and Dialogue; Copenhagen, 21 October 2008 Year of publication: 2008 Corporate author: UNESCO. Director-General, 1999-2009 (Matsuura, K.) This address is given by Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the Copenhagen Conference: “Education for Intercultural Understanding and Dialogue”. Address by Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the Valedictory session of the 4th International Conference on Environmental Education; Ahmedabad, India, 28 November 2007 Year of publication: 2007 Corporate author: UNESCO. Director-General, 1999-2009 (Matsuura, K.) This address was given by Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the Valedictory Session of the 4th International Conference on Environmental Education. Address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the Seminar on Climate Change and Education at the UN University: Responding to Climate Change Starts with Education; Tokyo, 26 November 2010 Year of publication: 2010 Corporate author: UNESCO. Director-General, 1999-2009 (Matsuura, K.) This document is an address of Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the Seminar on Climate Change and Education at the UN University “Responding to Climate Change Starts with Education” in Tokyo, 26 November 2010. She highlighted the importance of climate change education for the sustainable future and underlined the importance of several programme such as Sandwatch and YouthXchange which have been lead by the UNESCO. Address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of Seminar on Global Citizenship Education, UNHQ; New York, 6 March 2015 Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: UNESCO Director-General, 2009- (Bokova, I.G.) This document is an address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of "Seminar on Global Citizenship Education" in New York, 6 March 2015. She highlights the importance of GCED for education in the 21st century.