What everyone’s afraid to say: we can’t achieve the Global Goals

The goals promise to leave no one behind. Yet millions of invisible girls are being bypassed by global progress.
A girl plays with a basketball in Gao, Mali, in 2014. Adolescent girls are among the most vulnerable people on the planet, writes Caroline Riseboro.
There is something that everyone is afraid to say: the Global Goals cannot be achieved. At least, not unless major changes are made in how progress is measured. At the recent United Nations General Assembly high-level meetings, the juxtaposition between a global gathering centred on peace and the m...

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