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"Actions in Spotlight has encouraged me to learn more about why these inequalities exist and how society can resolve them through the implementation of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals."
"Actions encourages other young people to learn more and speak out for the causes they support; our voices will be heard."

Nonfiction in response to Partnerships for the Goals
May 2019
When I was little, my teachers taught my peers and me skills like adding and subtracting, reading and writing. They also taught us other skills like sharing with each other, talking about our problems, and negotiating solutions. These are basic principles...
By Georgia Bernbaum
May 2019
Nonfiction in response to Partnerships for the Goals
To achieve all 16 goals, the United Nations put forth the 17th goal which encourages collaboration between public and private sector to achieve the goals.Schools, public or private, play an important role to help achieve this 17th goal. They should prepare the future...
By Grace Muresan
Nonfiction in response to Partnerships for the Goals
May 2019
Collective Action on Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
By Amrita Bhasin

According to World Economic Forum, Sweden, Denmark and Norway are the countries that have made the most progress on achieving the Sustainable Development goals, and Sweden is “84.5% of the way to achieving the targets envisaged for 2030.” Columbia University says that there have been some breakthroughs from countries lower on the list as well; “Sierra Leone mainstreamed all the SDGs into its national budget and integrated lessons learned from recent shocks, including the Ebola crisis.”
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Something we must also take into account is that many of the global problems are seen in developed as well as developing nations. For example, gender equality is something that the U.S. is grappling with in economic and social ways. Columbia University reports that in Somalia, “gender gaps in the labor market cost as much as $95 billion per year between 2010 and 2014.” A hundred years after women in America won the right to vote, there is much progress to be made in regards to rights for women, even in our local communities when we look at wage gaps.
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65 million people are “estimated to be forcibly displaced (a higher number than at the end of World War II)” due to war and other regional and national conflicts.
The sustainable development goals are indeed ambitious and may not seem connected to each other at first look. However, achieving one goal will make it easier to reach the others because “a country’s ability to combat hunger is directly linked to the state of its infrastructure, land tenure, public health system, income levels, and capacity to manage natural resources and mitigate disasters” (Columbia University). Thus, collective action is needed if countries wish to achieve the goals.