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The SDG’s, composed by 17 goals, bring new changes and challenges. What remains to be seen is how these targets will be transformed into practical measures and how they will lead a global transformation during the next fifteen years.
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Sexual violence in various regions of the world, such as Africa or the Middle East, has reached alarming thresholds.
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The sanctions can potentially become a bargaining instrument in the negotiations between the diplomacy of the West and Russia.
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