Your World.
Your Future.
We all want our communities to be peaceful and fair. But for the Sustainable Development Goals to make an impact, we also need to be able to trust that our institutions (governments, police, legal justice systems) are inclusive and effective, are applying policy and law fairly without discrimination, are making provisions for healthcare, education and the environment and are actively combatting corruption and crime.
To be empowered to take positive action people require the freedom to act and express their opinions without oppression and to not live in fear of conflict, violence or recrimination. Without removing these barriers and changing attitudes progress to all other goals will stall, causing a knock-on effect to each individual issue through increased delay to global improvement and ultimately resulting in further harm to our people environment .
International Anti-Corruption Day takes place on 9th December each year.
At the age of 17 David Hogg became a survivor of a mass school shooting at Marjory Stoneham Douglas High School in Florida where 17 people were brutally killed. Following the incident David and fellow survivors founded Never Again MSD,who protest, march and campaign for better legislative action to prevent similar shootings occurring in the future. This led to the mass movement March For Our Lives, which sparked a historic youth turnout across the USA. He and his sister, Lauren, have since written a book ‘#Never Again: A New Generation Draws the Line’ which has been listed as a New York Times bestseller. The siblings pledged to donate the proceeds to charity.
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