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Hello there, I am a Liberian living here in the United States. I am very interested in the issue of refugees around the world as I was once a refugee myself. In any case the life of these people has been changed forever either for better or worse. Policy makers need to be educated about the plight of these folks here and interestingly so we are talking about human beings. Indeed it is because of education that the developed world protects even animals and people who do not respect their right to live get into trouble. Life is very precious indeed. The other thing I want to say is what is causing the refugee out flow world wide in the first place needs urgent attention by all peace loving nations. Until we all collectively find a solution to this, we will never solve the refugee crisis. Hold your government accountable when they deal with failed states and do not care about the citizens of those countries, our companies make deals that our laws will not allow and a whole bunch of stuffs. Our governments must be transparent in whatever ways they deal with these countries and live by example otherwise get ready to deal with refugee crisis year in and year out. There is frustration but lets hold our governments accountable to begin with and things may not be as difficult as they are today.

Thanks Colin. Please keep updating us on pngblog..issues regarding the SABL coi...and its final implementation of the recommendation..if ever PM Peter O' Niel completes the task

And, according to the main gender-equality claims on lesser pay, the hiring of females into positions of responsibility should save money for the organizations that move first.

You can't arrive unless you know where you are going. In my view, the collective agreement to pose targets and a deadline *IS* the plan. The plan is to mobilise action and resources around meeting the targets, action that will now be tracked and monitored and be advocated for. If by plan you mean process, ie. logframes, workplans, and "frameworks for action", we all know there'll more of those to come in spades.

Thanks Terance

I think one practical means of promoting gender equality through the SDGs is to advocate actively promoting women into positions of responsibility, as that will make it more likely that illicit financial flows are curbed (Goal 16, target 16.4) and crimes are combatted (Goal 16, target 16a.). Women commit many fewer crimes than men, even allowing for their often-gender-limited roles.

I hear your concerns, but as a big fan of llamas I can't help but like this ad

I agree the ad does a very good job of distilling the essence of the goals into a single sentence (or, at least, it does a great job of distilling a particular interpretation of the goals). But there's at least one glaring inaccuracy. No one has a plan: the Goals are desired targets; but we don't have a plan for meeting them (which is a good thing given we know comparatively little about the development process).

"The UN has launched a plan to fight poverty, injustice and climate change." What could be more direct? Succinctly captures the key messages, reinforces the logo and presents the iconic UN chamber as the world's meeting place. Anthropomorphising animals and linking them to national archetypes is a trope familiar to all ages. I think its brilliant.

I am Walid Tamim, I used to work for ABC Australia for more then 7 years and now I have established a TV channel exclusive for children and teenagers in Afghanistan. I am sharing the brief note and would be pleased to be forwarded to the relevant department/person for expansion of this TV network across the country. Currently we are in Kabul and Mazar e Sharif: Aria TV in Brief: Afghanistan, for the first time in its history, has the opportunity to practice modern democracy. In lessons learned from developed countries, multi-media has been an important source of knowledge and education for the masses. The role of media in promoting democracy, educating people about their civic rights, encouraging people to participate in politics and civics, is always recognized. This has been experienced in Afghanistan in last ten years. Therefore, it is critical, at this point of Afghanistan’s history, to educate society, especially the young generation, about the positive changes democracy can have on society using the experiences of other countries. ARIA TV was launched as a channel exclusively for children and teenagers to educate them about their civic rights and to do a sort of behavior change. The target audience is preschoolers, school students, and out of school children. The principle of this channel is “Education through Entertainment.” ARIA TV focuses on democracy promotion and aims at the children and teenagers as a hope for the future. The TV programming is designed to achieve this as a main aim. (Visit: www.aria.af) Objectives of ARIA TV are: • Teach civic responsibilities; • Teach social responsibilities (how contributing to keeping their communities clean, an education, respecting their parents and elders all make for a better society); • Teach the importance of a peaceful, democratic, and modern society; • Teach the dangers of terrorism and extremism; • Teach the danger of drugs; • Teach that their effective contribution and engagement to their communities can bring change to the lives of everyone; • To teach children’s rights, women’s rights, right to education, right to a peaceful life, and so on; • To change children and teenagers to a productive and better citizens; and • To encourage school attendance Best, Dr. Walid Tamim (MD, PgD in Economics) President-Aria TV Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan, Str. 15, Main Rd, House No. 835 Kabul-Afghanistan Cell: +93 7 96700898 (Afghanistan) Email: walid.tamim@aria.af Website: www.aria.af

And who's the Llama meant to be?

Excellent review. The question remaining is: how is it possible that this farcical process and outcomes were allowed to take place? And then a second question: how do we reform the UN/INGO/development system to stop this sort of thing happening?