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Path steepens to 2030 anti-poverty goals

The U.N.'s annual forum on progress towards its 17 Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 opened with a big challenge made far harder by the pandemic.

Roadside stands outside Uganda's capital Kampala
Roadside stands outside Uganda's capital Kampala (AN/J. Heilprin)

The United Nations' annual gathering on progress towards its 17 anti-poverty Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 opened on Tuesday with a massive challenge made incalculably more difficult by the coronavirus pandemic.

The three-day political forum is meant to give an overview of the pandemic's severe impacts on the 17 goals, or SDGs, that comprise the 2030 agenda. Participants also gathered to discuss concrete measures they could take to better deal with the pandemic — and try to get everyone headed in the same direction.

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