Celebrating progress: Momentum1000

By Heather Faison on April 2, 2013

On April 5, 2013, organizations from all parts of the international development community will launch a global 1,000-minute social media rally to raise awareness and inspire action around the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and will mark the 1,000 day milestone leading to 2015.

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Ted Turner’s Quest to Save a Troubled Planet

By ToddW on April 2, 2013

“Last Stand: Ted Turner’s Quest to Save a Troubled Planet,” serves in part as Turner’s dramatic and forceful argument for why the UN matters in the 21st century — and why it is irreplaceable.

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Family Dinner Never Mattered So Much

By Guest Blogger on April 1, 2013

“It takes a village” has always been our family’s philosophy, and so I had the good fortune of being raised with many surrogates — equally strong and caring women — who mentored me and filled in the missing pieces of my life puzzle.

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A Message to Congress amid Possible Funding Cuts to UN & Peacekeeping

By Peter Yeo on March 27, 2013

Under UN peacekeeping, it is individuals from other countries who assume great personal risk, as evidenced by the recent kidnapping of 21 Filipino peacekeepers in the Golan and the deaths of four Russian peacekeepers in Congo. Despite these significant occupational hazards, UN peacekeepers remain central to efforts like those that advance democracy in places like Liberia and strengthen government capacity and prevent conflict in South Sudan. It is therefore crucial that our nation fully fund our peacekeeping dues.

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Five elements for a successful global partnership

By Susan Myers on March 26, 2013

The UN Foundation has a 15 year history of building partnerships in support of the UN. Our theory of change is based on the belief that to make lasting change, actors from the public and private sectors must be mobilized.

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Off to Bali…

By Susan Myers on March 23, 2013

I have the privilege of being the UN Foundation’s representative at the 4th meeting of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, taking place March 25-27 in Bali, Indonesia.

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Global Mom Relay Twitter Party

By Imali Bandara on March 21, 2013

The next leg of the Global Mom Relay will highlight the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a United Nations Foundation initiative that advocates for the use of clean-burning cookstoves around the world.

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UNDP report cites new trends to celebrate—and more work ahead

By Helen Clark on March 20, 2013

Today marks the world’s first International Day of Happiness, thanks to a 2012 UN resolution declaring wellbeing a universal goal and calling for more inclusive, equitable growth to make wellbeing and happiness achievable for all.

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Girls Leading Change: Malala Yousafzai

By Guest Blogger on March 18, 2013

At 15, Malala is a leader. She shows us that leadership is about vision. It’s about values that endure, uncompromised. It’s about sacrifice and conviction, about the resolve to take risks and persevere.

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Changing Norms, Ending Child Marriage

By Faith Phiri on March 14, 2013

For many adolescent girls and young brides, child marriage is perceived as a death sentence, given the scarring effects for the health, education, and life of girls.

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