New Sustainable Development Goals for People to End Poverty

The 2030 Plan for Sustainable Development and a set of ambitious new Global Goals, which Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hailed as a universal, integrated, and transformative vision for a better world, officially adopted by the 193-member United Nations General Assembly. Mr. Ban opened the UN Sustainable Development Summit at UN Headquarters in New York from 25-27 September 2015 and declared as follows:

“The new agenda is a promise by leaders to all people everywhere. It is an agenda for people, to end poverty in all its forms – an agenda for the planet, our common home.”

Disability is referred to in different parts of the sustainability goals source and explicitly in parts of education, growth, employment, deprivation, human settlement accessibility, as well as data collection and SDG monitoring, such as:

Goal 4: Inclusive and equitable quality education and the promotion of life-long learning opportunities for all aim to eliminate gender gaps in education and ensure fair access for marg…