July 2012: The latest issue of “DESA News,” the newsletter of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), highlights the release of the 2012 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) report on 2 July, and the World Economic and Social Survey 2012 on 5 July.

The newsletter also addresses the post-2015 development agenda, noting that DESA’s Statistics Division and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) are organizing a workshop on “MDG Monitoring: to 2015 and beyond,” taking place in Bangkok, Thailand, from 9-13 July 2012. The workshop will include a review of lessons learned from monitoring the MDGs in view of the preparation of the post-2015 development agenda and the related new monitoring framework. [Publication: DESA News, Vol. 16, No. 7]