When world leaders gathered at the United Nations five years ago to promulgate their Millennium Declaration, they pledged their nations to a global partnership aimed at cutting extreme poverty in half ...

On Thursday, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Holy See permanent observer to the United Nations in New York, addressed the 63rd session of the U.N. General Assembly which is considering the Millennium ...

The Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) convened an expert group meeting on “Achievements, gaps and challenges in linking the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, the Millennium ...

In September 2000, the United Nations approved the Millennium Declaration. It set the stage for the Millennium Development Goals, which are due to be achieved in 2015. But have the MDGs brought ...

Critics fear that the renewed UN Millennium Development Goals starting in 2015 will fail to include democracy and human rights. But maybe the UN Declaration on Human Rights is still useful. Next week ...

Brett was the Jay Kingham Senior Research Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs in Heritage’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. Perhaps the most enduring myth codified in the 2005 World ...

Pretoria — United Nations (UN) secretary-general Kofi Annan warned this week that the world was falling short in meeting the objectives agreed by global leaders two years ago in the Millennium ...

Davos — The World Economic Forum is launching a high-level Initiative to monitor progress in the global effort to implement the ambitious social, economic and environmental goals set forth in the ...

2003-09-08T16:25:55-04:00https://images.c-span.org/defaults/Capitol_default-image.jpgSecretary-General Annan talked to reporters about the future goals of the United ...

A low-income neighborhood known as Boca la Caja next to the business district of Panama City, Panama. (Carlos Jasso/Reuters) It was easy to miss the miracle that occurred in New York in the fall of ...

UNITED NATIONS -- The historic three-day New Millennium Summit of 180 presidents, prime ministers and kings ended Friday with a declaration of their intent to solve humanity's most pressing problems, ...