HH Sheikha Moza joins UN Secretary General in high-level Sustainable Development Goals Advocacy meeting in New York

Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Advocate and Chairperson of Education Above All, participated in a high-level SDG Advocacy meeting hosted by the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, this afternoon at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

The meeting gathered SDG Advocates, including HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, and HE the President of Ghana among others, to discuss the progress of the SDGs and identify future advocacy opportunities.

During the meeting, Her Highness asserted the need for increased collaboration between all the SDGs and the Advocates, in order to achieve not only universal education, but also successfully accomplish all the Global Goals by 2030.

She also shared Education Above All’s successful experience in reaching 10 million out-of-school children with quality education, through a multisectoral approach that tackles education barriers from health to sanitation to transport, among others.

Launched in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals aim to achieve universal peace and sustainably transform the world by 2030, through identifying and tackling various challenges like poverty, hunger, education, and climate change among 13 other goals. In 2016, Her Highness and 16 eminent persons were selected as SDG Advocates to assist the UN Secretary-General and create momentum to achieve the 2030 Agenda.