{"id":6481,"date":"2015-10-29T09:24:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T09:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6481"},"modified":"2015-10-29T09:24:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T09:24:20","slug":"giving-the-un-a-helping-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/10\/29\/giving-the-un-a-helping-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving the UN a helping hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may think you have already\u00a0come across the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalgoals.org\"><em>Global Goals<\/em><\/a> for SD, but are you\u00a0confusing this with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/sustainable-development-goals\/\">UN's SD Goals<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, they are the same goals, but when you compare the websites, you'll see the difference. \u00a0Global Goals is an initiative of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/global-goals\/\">Global Citizen<\/a>\u00a0which has better images and more partners than the UN. \u00a0It looks like a force of nature.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly has a catchy strap line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>17 GLOBAL GOALS \u2013 7 BILLION WORLDWIDE<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\"If the goals are going to work, everyone needs to know about them. \u00a0You can\u2019t fight for your rights if you don\u2019t know what they are. \u00a0You can\u2019t convince world leaders to do what needs to be done if you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re convincing them to do. \u00a0It\u2019s the same wherever you are in the world. \u00a0Find out what\u2019s going on around the world, decide how you are going to help us reach 7 billion people in 7 days and tell us what\u2019s happening where you are. \u00a0These goals are for everyone, everywhere.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether the last sentence gets\u00a0taken seriously. \u00a0After all, the MDGs were not seen like this. \u00a0Far from it; of course, neither\u00a0was there such a campaign behind them.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it's all grist to the global learning mill ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may think you have already\u00a0come across the Global Goals for SD, but are you\u00a0confusing this with the UN's SD Goals? Of course, they are the same goals, but when you compare the websites, you'll see the difference. \u00a0Global Goals...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}