[RED DEMOCRATICA] Best post-2015 strategy could be integrating population, development goals

 

Quote of the Day | Excerpts from UN Dispatch | UN: Human rights abuses by both sides in South Sudan Created for eleccion@yahoogroups.com |  Web Version   May 8, 2014 FOLLOW THE UN FOUNDATION     News covering the UN and the world SIGN UP | FORWARD | ADVERTISE | DONATE Top Story Best post-2015 strategy could be integrating population, development goals Finding the links between population goals and development goals is one strategy that could integrate the two and help move post-2015 goals forward, say experts. "We need to bring all of the issues to bear when we talk about [population], so that it doesn't get caught up in the old debates and questions," says Kathy Calvin, president and CEO of the United Nations Foundation. "It's about your country's economy [and] your country's environment." 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