Norway has been actively engaged in working to formulate ambitious sustainable development goals and in the process of creating a post- 2015 development agenda. We have taken a human- based approach to our priorities, and we welcome today’s discussion on advancing the rights of all the individuals w…
More people are better off today than ever before. Many developing countries, not least the largest among them, have experienced a decade or more of impressive growth. People have not only been lifted out of poverty; fortunes have been made.
Despite such progress, too many people have been left beh…
Why are humanitarian workers being killed, when all they want to do is to help? Why are they denied access to people in desperate need, when all they want to do is to relieve suffering? And why are we, the international community and national Governments, unable or unwilling to invest in disaster pr…
