The aim is to review and assess progress towards goals aimed at ensuring women's reproductive rights.
In Incheon, South Korea, this week, leaders will assess progress towards the millennium development goals, which expire this year, and seek to agree a common position on the post-2015 sustainable development goals, which seem likely to include universal free primary and secondary education.
Nearly two-thirds of the world's illiterate adults are women, a proportion that has remained stubbornly unchanged for the past 20 years, according to a global report assessing progress towards gender equality, published on Tuesday.
The "troika"—the representatives of the Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF is due in Athens next week to assess progress towards fiscal and structural reforms before the next €9 billion loan tranche is released.
The resistance from governments that would rather women stick to traditional roles in the home, producing children on demand, is all too familiar to anyone who attends the Commission on the Status of Women at the UN, the annual meeting for member states to assess progress towards gender equality.
Biodiversity indicators are increasingly used to assess progress towards conservation targets.
The developed Sustainability Indicator System (SIS) is a comprehensive tool to assess progress towards a more sustainable energy system and is, thus, useful to support decision-making.
Sustainable development and the definition of indicators to assess progress towards sustainability have become a high priority in scientific research and on policy agendas.
The purpose of this paper is to assess progress towards the first goal of Education for All, namely, 'expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and education (ECCE), especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children' (UNESCO, 2000).
IRM would allow local, regional, and global experts to objectively assess technical soundness, ambition, and assess progress towards the "commitments to action".
