It was an event which shocked the world into action and the adoption of the wide-ranging goals of the HFA helped to raise public and institutional awareness, generate political commitment and mobilise key stakeholders across civil society, catalysing actions by a wide range of stakeholders at all levels in an effort to reduce disaster losses.
United Nations Member States Poised to Endorse Wide-Ranging Goals for Children GENEVA / NEW YORK, 26 April 2002 - Member States of the United Nations are expected to adopt a wide-ranging series of goals at a global conference next month in New York that will place children back at the top of the world's agenda and address the pressing issues of child mortality, AIDS, exploitation and poverty.
The new project, called the Open Content Alliance, has the wide-ranging goal of digitizing historical works of fiction along with specialized technical papers.
The under-the-radar sneakiness of function words actually makes them uniquely suited to Pennebaker's wide-ranging research goals, which focus on uncovering traces of our social identity and individual psyche in everyday language use.
And because legal systems are tasked with furthering society's wide-ranging behavioral goals (fight less; stand behind bargains; save enough for retirement), the effects of evolutionary processes on behaviors can pose unexpected challenges.
In September, world leaders committed to the wide-ranging sustainable development goals (SDGs), which aim to end extreme poverty, address the impact of climate change and reduce inequality by 2030.
Other agreements that obligate governments to move against child labour include the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most ratified international human rights treaty, and the final document from last month's United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children, where governments agreed to a wide-ranging set of goals for the health, education and protection of children.
Record number of children to be official delegates at upcoming UN Special Session GENEVA / NEW YORK, 26 April 2002 - Member States of the United Nations are expected to adopt a wide-ranging series of goals at a global conference next month in New York that will place children back at the top of the world's agenda and address the pressing issues of child mortality, AIDS, exploitation and poverty.
While the wide-ranging statement reaffirms previous goals set in 2001, it also calls for ambitious national targets and promotes the protection of young people – especially girls – to reduce their vulnerability to HIV.
New ideas, combined with continually improving computer algorithms, are making it possible to advance on that goal, bringing wide-ranging applications in synthetic biology within reach.
The SDGs represent an historic agreement -- a wide-ranging roadmap to sustainability covering 17 goals and 169 targets -- but stakeholders must also be held accountable for their commitments.
