2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals

In September 2015 the UN General Assembly established «Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development». This is plan of action in favour of people, the planet and prosperity, and which also aims to boost universal peace and access to justice. Recognising that the main challenge for the world at present is the eradication of poverty and keeping in mind that without achieving this goal there can be no sustainable development, the member States of the UN propose an agenda with 17 objectives and 169 goals of an integrated and indivisible nature, which encompass the economic, social and environmental spheres. Unlike the Millennium Development Goals which were drawn up by a team of experts behind closed doors and were designed for developing countries, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are the result of a negotiating process which involved 193 countries, civil society and other social agents. They are for universal implementation. This global alliance represents a new social and political model for the advancement of children’s rights and wellbeing in all the countries of the world, leaving nobody behind. The new world roadmap is an opportunity to apply the lessons learned from the Millennium Development Goals, to reach the most vulnerable children and to pursue an ambitious development programme beyond 2015, and in which children generally, and specifically the most vulnerable ones, must be at the heart of it.