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The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2020 Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) The annual Sustainable Development Goals Report provides an overview of the world’s implementation efforts to date, highlighting areas of progress and areas where more action needs to be taken to ensure no one is left behind. Now, in only a short period of time, the COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed an unprecedented crisis, causing further disruption to SDG progress, with the world’s poorest and most vulnerable affected the most.Using the latest data and estimates, this annual stocktaking report on progress across the 17 Goals shows that it is the poorest and most vulnerable – including children, older persons, persons with disabilities, migrants and refugees – who are being hit the hardest by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Women are also bearing the heaviest brunt of the pandemic’s effects.The report also shows that climate change is still occurring much faster than anticipated. 
تقرير أهداف التنمية المستدامة 2017 Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) يستعرض تقرير أهداف التنمية املستدامة لعام 2017 التقدم المحرز نحو تحقيق الأهداف السبعة عشر في السنة الثانية من تنفيذ خطة التنمية المستدامة لعام 2030 .ويستند التقرير إلى أحدث البيانات المتاحة. وهو يسلط الضوء على المكاسب والتحديات في الوقت الذي يتحرك فيه المجتمع الدولي صوب تحقيق الطموحات والمباديء التي تبناها في خطة عام 2030. 
World Social Report 2023 : Leaving No One Behind in an Ageing World Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UN. Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN. DESA) Population ageing is a defining global trend of our time. People are living longer, and more are older than ever before. Spectacular improvements in health and survival and reductions in fertility have driven this momentous shift, which has begun or is expected to begin soon in all countries and areas. This change brings both challenges and opportunities as countries strive to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2022, the world marked the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing. To commemorate this landmark, the World Social Report 2023 explores the economic and social implications of the ageing of the human population. It builds on the Plan of Action’s framework for national policies to create equitable, inclusive societies for people of all ages, providing recommendations to put the rights and well-being of older persons at the centre, across the life course. Population ageing is an inevitable result of the demographic transition towards longer lives and smaller families. While the shift towards older populations is largely irreversible, collective actions and policy decisions shape its path and consequences. Postponing critical measures that allow societies to benefit from and adapt to population ageing would impose high social, economic, fiscal and health-related costs, for both current and future generations. By contrast, with appropriate foresight and planning, Governments can manage the challenges from population ageing while enhancing opportunities for all people to thrive and ensuring that no one is left behind. As elaborated in this report, population ageing needs to be widely understood as more than just a set of discrete concerns mainly for one group of people who have advanced beyond a given age. Ageing touches all parts of economies and societies, from health care and education to employment and taxation. Each stage of life can contribute to or detract from well-being at older ages. The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2017 Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) In adopting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, world leaders resolved to free humanity from poverty, secure a healthy planet for future generations, and build peaceful, inclusive societies as a foundation for ensuring lives of dignity for all.This report provides a snapshot of our efforts to date. It stresses that high-level political leadership and new partnerships will be essential for sustaining momentum. It also underscores the need for reliable, timely, accessible and disaggregated data to measure progress, inform decision-making and ensure that everyone is counted. 
Evaluating the Sustainable Development Goals with a “No one left behind” lens through equity-focused and gender-responsive evaluation Year of publication: 2016 Author: Michael Bamberger | Marco Segone | Florencia Tateossian The purpose of this publication is to provide guidance on how to integrate an equity-focused and gender-responsive (EFGR) approach to national evaluation systems that should inform national Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) reviews. This guidance is intended to support national evaluation systems on how to integrate EFGR evaluations to inform the national reviews of SDGs. The guidance is expected to primarily serve national evaluation systems, the UN system, multilateral and bilateral development agencies, academic institutions, including specialized research centres and think tanks, private foundations, the private sector, and voluntary organizations of professional evaluators. Оценка Целей Устойчивого Развития на основе принципа «Развитие для всех без исключения» через призму гендерного равенства и социальной справедливости Year of publication: 2016 Author: Michael Bamberger | Marco Segone | Florencia Tateossian Цель данной публикации – предоставить рекомендации относительно возможных путей интеграции принципов социальной справедливости и гендерного равенства в национальные системы оценки, которые должны будут передавать информацию для страновых обзоров Целей в области устойчивого развития (ЦУР). Статистический анализ с учетом гендера и дезагрегированных показателей, хотя и имеет важное значение, должен дополняться оценками, проводимыми на основе принципов социальной справедливости и гендерного равенства, для того, чтобы развитие охватывало всех без исключения. Руководство в первую очередь предназначено для лиц, вовлеченных в национальные системы оценки; системы Организации Объединенных Наций; многосторонних и двусторонних агентств развития; академических институтов, в том числе специализированных исследовательских и аналитических центров; частных фондов; организаций частного сектора и добровольных объединений в области профессиональной оценки. 
COVID-19 and Human Rights: We Are All in This Together Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) Human rights are key in shaping the pandemic response, both for the public health emergency and the broader impact on people’s lives and livelihoods. Human rights put people centre-stage. Responses that are shaped by and respect human rights result in better outcomes in beating the pandemic, ensuring healthcare for everyone and preserving human dignity. But they also focus our attention on who is suffering most, why, and what can be done about it. They prepare the ground now for emerging from this crisis with more equitable and sustainable societies, development and peace.This paper aims to translate this Call into concrete action to assist with the response to the pandemic. It presents six key messages that must be central to an effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 
Address by Ms. Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the Civil Society / Education on Human Rights Event; New York, 27 September 2012 Year of publication: 2012 Corporate author: UNESCO. Director-General, 2009-2017 (Bokova, I.G.) This speech was given by Ms. Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the Civil Society / Education on Human Rights event . Discours de Mme Irina Bokova, Directrice générale de l'UNESCO à l'occasion de la Société Civile / Education sur les droits de l'événement; New York, 27 Septembre 2012 Year of publication: 2012 Corporate author: UNESCO. Director-General, 2009-2017 (Bokova, I.G.) Ce discours a été prononcé par Mme Irina Bokova, Directrice générale de l'UNESCO, à l'occasion de la Société Civile / Education sur les droits de l'événement. 
Exploring our roles as global citizens: an educator's guide (grades 3-5) Year of publication: 2013 Author: Elizabeth O. Crawford Corporate author: TeachUNICEF ‘Exploring Our Roles as Global Citizens’ is a four-lesson unit with extension activities and a student-led inquiry project that is designed to introduce the concept of global citizenship, including relevant knowledge, skills, values, and civic actions; to educate students about universal human rights outlined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and what their responsibilities are to ensure these rights are protected; to foster students’ skills in developing perspectives, critical and creative thinking, research, and decision-making about a chosen global issue using a student-led inquiry model; and to empower students to recognize and use their individual strengths to make a positive difference in their local communities. Lesson 1: What Is Global Citizenship? This lesson engages students in reflecting upon what it means to be a global citizen. Although students are often taught the concepts of citizenship and the characteristics of good citizenship during the elementary years, students may not have considered previously their roles as citizens in a global society. Using authentic examples of global citizenship among youth as a springboard for discussion, students determine how they are citizens at various levels. Afterward, students begin their inquiry of a chosen global issue about which they will take informed action at the end of the unit. Lesson 2: We Are Citizens of the World and We Have Rights! Building upon their prior learning about citizenship, students are introduced to human rights, or those rights to which all persons are entitled. Students learn about the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and create a concept map outlining categories and examples of human rights. Afterward, students relate human rights to contemporary global issues and how it is our responsibility to take action when the rights of others are violated. Lesson 3: Global Citizens Take Responsibility In this lesson, students learn about their individual and collective responsibility to protect human rights. Through analysis of authentic photographs depicting responsible citizenship, students explore the idea that global citizens are proactive when the rights of others are threatened. To demonstrate their learning, students role-play characteristics of global citizenship. Subsequently, in cooperative groups, students continue their global issue research and begin to consider how they will take informed action as global citizens. Lesson 4: Global Change Begins With Me In this culminating lesson, students reflect upon their learning about global citizenship and how they can be positive change agents in their communities. Students first explore how individuals take action to solve a problem or to improve conditions for others. Using these examples as inspiration, students determine how they, too, can be “changemakers.” As a final assessment, students synthesize what they have learned by creating a comprehensive definition of global citizenship, and develop an action plan to address the global issue they have researched.