Humanitarian situation in Sudan
A Westminster Hall debate on the humanitarian situation in Sudan is scheduled for Tuesday 22 July 2025, from 2.30pm to 4.00pm. The debate will be led by Harpreet Upal MP.

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Sustainable Development Goals (184 KB , PDF)
The aim of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which had been a major influence on international development policy before their expiry in 2015. The SDGs (also known as the Global Goals) are as follows:
Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere;
The process by which the Goals were developed was a complex one. In 2013, the UN General Assembly established an Open Working Group to begin to process of developing the SDGs. The Open Working Group reported in 2014, and suggested 17 new goals with 169 underlying targets. The Open Working Group’s draft goals were based partly on an earlier report from the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, which was co-chaired by then Prime Minister David Cameron. Following the Open Working Group’s report, the goals and targets were adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2015. Subsequently, in March 2016, the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) agreed on a framework of 230 indicators which will be used to measure progress towards the goals and targets.
In June 2016, the International Development Committee produced a report on “UK implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals,” to which the Government responded in September. The Government accepted a number of the Committee’s recommendations, including the following:
However, recommendations rejected by the Government included the following:
Sustainable Development Goals (184 KB , PDF)
A Westminster Hall debate on the humanitarian situation in Sudan is scheduled for Tuesday 22 July 2025, from 2.30pm to 4.00pm. The debate will be led by Harpreet Upal MP.
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