Corrections, clarifications, additions and notes for draft of main document: "Global Lies? A partial history of UN development goals, and some global social science" by Matt Berkley Available at globalfactcheck.org/documents or via ungoals.org 26 August 2020 ................. More material may be added in future on: - "Rights" of animals beyond humans - Climate change - Discrimination - Covid-19 including G20 statement - Illicit financial flows - Hidden wealth - Inequality in tax - 2019 and 2020 UN General Assembly resolutions .............................. Possible specific revisions: Update material on World's Largest Lesson (since 2018). Perhaps add more to headline: Goals for 2000 and 2015 agreed or reaffirmed by the reported 117 world leaders and 69 representatives of other countries in Copenhagen at the 1995 World Summit for Social Development. To check: World Bank treatment of rent and home ownership for the global poverty claims: Relevant parts of the draft need to be checked in view of conflicting statements in the World Bank methodology documents from various years. To check: 2017 World Health Assembly: Relevant part needs to be checked to ensure it is correct and worthwhile. Last page (if this material is kept) to include more and/or recent BBC failings. For example the failures to inform people: - that the 2030 Agenda is more than 'SDGs', or - of the "solemn commitment" of 2011, or - that the 2012 Conference agreed that SDGs were to be based on Agenda 21, or - of SDG targets for 2020. Perhaps add incorrect/misleading statements by BBC staff and/or published by Trustees about complaints. Page 92 needs an extra part on goals for water and sanitation for all humans by 2020 and 2025, agreed at UN conferences in 2011 and 1992 respectively. The same may apply to some other sections, especially if written before I took those into account. To consider more - old version: "The [UN members'] commitment was to the most ambitious of any relevant pledges made in UN resolutions and still current." Nations might claim the reaffirmations in UN conference and summit outcomes only apply to previous conference and summit outcomes and not other resolutions. But then we might ask what the point is of making other resolutions. ........................ Relatively minor revisions Item on Full Fact, poverty and the World Bank with the date 17 February 2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20160903093109/https://fullfact.org/economy/factcheck-measuring-low-pay-isnt-same-measuring-poverty/ For some reason the current Full Fact page gives an earlier date: 'published 1 Dec 2014', while this archived version says 'last updated 1 Dec 2014': https://web.archive.org/web/20161223061224/https://fullfact.org/economy/factcheck-measuring-low-pay-isnt-same-measuring-poverty/ Page 1905 needs revision - the phrase from the Millennium Declaration seems superflous: "We request the General Assembly to review on a regular basis the progress made in implementing the provisions of this Declaration" New url: https://www.clareshort.org/speeches/labour-party-conference-address (though not needed as the archived url works) Telephone discussion with UN Chief of Statistical Services seems to have been 30 August 2002 or possibly September 2002 from my notes. "The later "MDG architect" " Think about this on page 894: "[MB note: In 2017 the World Bank "calculation" was still based on things which poor people could never afford to buy.]" Could think about this: "The FAO has in recent years (though not in its set of indicators in 2017) used another indicator - "prevalence of food inadequacy"." (page 2189) Could think about whether it's appropriate to add 2018 or 2019 here: "For some reason, in their public statements at the UN in 2016 and 2017, countries have often referred to this series of resolutions as "the Agenda 21 resolution" rather than "the resolution on existing sustainable development agreements from 1992 onwards" which would be more accurate." (page 2301) Could consider updating this: "In 2016, having publicly claimed to be putting into practice a "data revolution" which a high-level panel had said was intended partly for accountability, the UN persisted in misleading the public that it had reliable statistics on poverty, hunger, maternal mortality and malaria. In 2020 it appears university and school students, and the public generally, are being told falsehoods highly relevant to holding, or failing to hold, politicians to account." (page 2510) ................................................ To add to index: More on inequality. To change in index: Full Fact, \''the UK's independent fact-checking charity\'' Governance question arises because countries accepted FAO fake baseline and fake "MDG" target, 143 Change "they" to "member states": "World leaders at 2015 Summit fail to mention Millennium and other goals which they were supposed to review, 1897, 1906" Expand index entry: "survival rates are the first thing, 940" Duplicate in index: "MDG architects" from OECD and World Bank were told in April 2001 of the basic statistical error of omitting those who die, 641 "MDG architects" from OECD and World Bank were told in April 2001 of the basic statistical error of omitting those who die, 146 ................................