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In 2025, the global community will mark the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the unanimous adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

The Beijing Declaration in 1995 recognized that gender equality is essential to democracy. Yet, 30 years after, progress remains uneven and at risk, with backlash against gender equality, and democratic values threatening hard-won gains.

In 1995, on the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations, governments worldwide took a significant step towards advancing equality, development, and peace for women and girls.

This week, like every September, heads of state are coming together at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and address the world through their speeches during the High-Level Week (HLW) General Debate (GD). The HLW provides the United Nations’ 193 member states with a platform to present their official position on international politics, the state of the world, and their domestic and foreign policy priorities. 

The Pact for the Future, set to be endorsed at the United Nations Summit of the Future on 22-23 September in New York, is a pivotal framework designed to address global challenges with a long-term vision extending beyond 2030. It includes two annexes: the Global Digital Compact and the Declaration on Future Generations, focusing on digital governance and the rights of future generations. The Pact’s five broad focus areas include: sustainable development; international peace and security; science and technology; youth and future generations, and transforming global governance. This comprehensive framework is critical as it proposes reforms to global institutions like the UN, aiming to tackle issues such as climate change and peace and security amid increasing geopolitical tensions.

The United Nations (UN) and its 193 Member States marked a significant milestone in September 2015 with the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, consisting of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) focusing on people, prosperity,

SDG 16 focuses on promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, providing access to justice for all, and building effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels. This goal is increasingly recognized as pivotal in creating an environment conducive to achieving the 2030 Agenda, adopted by all members of the UN in 2015.

This Policy Paper explores the interlinkages between Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions) and the 2030 Agenda’s other Sustainable Development Goals. 

Since technologies are not neutral, the principles underpinning digital technologies and their governance system are fundamental to protecting their capacity to foster, maintain and protect human rights.

Our Common Agenda (OCA), designed to turbocharge the implementation of existing multilateral agreements, including the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, highlighted a set of proposals based

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Overview of the Summit

The UN General Assembly convened 192 world leaders and delegated officials last week in New York in a context of global polycrises: the war in Ukraine, high debt burdens and economic fragility of developing countries resulting from the lingering effects of the pandemic and the climate emergency.  

A few weeks away from the one year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and in a stark warning that the clock is the “closest it has ever stood to humanity’s darkest hour”, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ annual 2023 speech to the UN Gene

This year's SDG16 Data Initiative Report , jointly produced by the SDG16 Data Initiative consortium, aims to evaluate global progress towards realizing Sustainable Development Goal 16—Promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development.

The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) made a statement during the 11^th Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly, which was convened from 28 February – 2 March 2022 at the United Nations after a failure of the UN Security Council to pass resolution S/2022/155 to condemn the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation.

The key findings on tracking the progress on SDG 16 using the Global State of Democracy Indices data are as follows:

The scale, ambition and approach of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, and its SDG framework, are unprecedented.

The SDGs are global in nature and universally applicable; they consider national contexts, capacities, and levels of development and challenges.