The United Nations annual Human Development Report has just been released. It's theme is Human Development for Everyone.
In this Guardian report Brexit is cited as an example of a nationalist agenda that could hold back progress on the global goals.
The annual human development index said that at a time when global action and collaboration were imperative in achieving the sustainable development goals by 2030, exclusion and intolerance could prevent progress reaching everyone. “Brexit is one of the most recent examples of a retreat to nationalism … ” the report said. “Intolerance of others in all its forms – legal, social or coercive – is antithetical to human development.”
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