Literacy: A foundation for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a Water Perspective

1 Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2 Sustainable Water Future Programme, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 3 Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 4 Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 5 Department of Civil Engineering, The City College of New York, New York, NY, USA, 6 In...

The Nexus between Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage in Nigeria: A Cultural Inhibition to Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

The world leaders agreed to make the world a better place by year 2030 through the Sustainable Development Goals and targets. This however cannot be achieved in Nigeria except we are proactive about some cultural practices that negatively affect the girl child.  Child Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) are two deep-rooted Harmful Traditional Practices (HTPs) that have prevai...

Maternal mortality: A challenge in achieving Millennium Development Goals

Introduction: Reducing the labour by an unskilful person is an important strategy in promotion of mother's health and reducing the maternal mortality as the fifth millennium development goals. Methods: This retrospective and descriptive study was accomplishd in 2010.The samples were 189 Iranian mothers with labour by unskilful person in urban and rural area affiliated to Mashhad University of M...

Community–based primary health care: a core strategy for achieving sustainable development goals for health

From the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals.

1. Pursuant to Economic and Social Council resolution 2006/18, the Commission for Social Development has included the agenda item entitled “Emerging issues” in its programme of work since its 2007-2008 review and policy cycle. Under this agenda item, the Commission addresses current issues affecting social development that require urgent consideration or new cross-cutting issues in the context ...