[EQ] Debate: Recognizing the achievements, addressing the challenges and getting back on track to achieve the MDGs

Debate:
Recognizing the achievements, addressing the challenges and getting back on track to achieve the MDGs by 2015

 

UN General Assembly to Seek Urgent Action on Poverty, Education and Health to Achieve Millennium Development Goals

1-2 April 2008

 

Website: http://www.un.org/ga/president/62/ThematicDebates/mdgthematicdebate.shtml

 

“….will concentrate on the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, and combating malaria and other diseases….”

 

UN General Assembly debate will bring together representatives from academia, business, government, nongovernmental organizations and the UN System.

 

The event will be webcast live at www.un.org/webcast

 

       Documents:

       Backgrounder - "Poverty and Hunger"

       Backgrounder - "Education"

       Backgrounder - "Health"

 

More information: www.un.org/millenniumgoals

 

 

 

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