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General Assembly: New Global Goals for Sustainable 
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The 
international community gathered at the UN this week for the General Assembly 
and to adopt the new global goals for sustainable development -- the world's 
to-do list to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and stop 
environmental destruction and the threat of climate change. 
"This 
is a time of fear and heartbreak...but this is also a time for hope." -- 
Read the UN Secretary-General's message to the General 
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Leadership 
Summit on Peacekeeping
  Standing 
before more than 50 world leaders asked to make their own new commitments to 
peacekeeping, President Obama announced on Monday that the U.S. would enhance 
troop commitments, training, and logistical support, as well as equipment to 
defend against armed rebel groups in ungoverned spaces. 
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2015 
Social Good Summit On 
September 27-28, the Social Good Summit community came together in New York to 
share ideas on how we can build a better world by 2030 in support of the new 
global goals. The Summit may be over, but conversation isn't -- follow along 
with with hashtags #2030NOW 
and #SocialGood. 
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The 
new iPhone app from the UN Foundation makes it easy to connect with the global 
goals.
  Download it 
now. 
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