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Austria made achieving the Sustainable Development Goals a political priority and set a goal to increase their position in the rankings, moving from 9th to 5th place.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says India is no longer in the UN’s annual report on children in armed conflict. A group of activists questions the decision, documenting the latest violations of children's rights. In the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir, the authorities revived civil militia to fight separatist rebels.

ASEAN says it is committed to promoting circularity in MSMEs across the region.

In 2014 Barbados introduced a vaccine to prevent certain strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and reduce the risk of cervical cancer in young women. Despite the disproportionate burden of cervical cancer in the Caribbean, many Afro-Barbadians chose not to immunize their daughters.

Convening the communication and media (for) development, social and behavioural change community through a social networking and shared knowledge strategy. Focus on health, governance, HIV/AIDS, children, media development, conflict management, environment, rights, disasters, gender and other major Development issues.

This book addresses the issue of agency in relation to child marriage.

"Women, people of non-binary gender identities, and other diversity groups who face discrimination, tend to be excluded from news." This news content study, published by the Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI), seeks to shed new light on how Bangladeshi media are dealing with diversity and gender equity.

"Human-centered design and human-factors methods can assist during pilot stages to better align systems with users needs and again after scale-up to ensure that interventions are suitable for all user settings."

"The labour and delivery ward in low-resource settings creates the perfect storm for...difficult situations - a combination of a difficult work environment, stressed and demotivated providers with rigid expectations of how a woman in labour should behave, and patients whose needs are not being met..."

"The tools let us understand the health care provider better as a person.