Monday, July 6, 2009

[EQ] The Millennium Development Goals Report 2009

The Millennium Development Goals Report 2009


Recent gains in eradicating hunger and poverty endangered by economic and food crises, says UN report

 

United Nations, 2009

 

Available online PDF [60p.] at: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/MDG%20Report%202009%20ENG.pdf

 

6 July, Geneva  “…..More than halfway to the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), major advances in the fight against poverty and hunger have begun to slow or even reverse as a result of the global economic and food crises, a progress report by the United Nations has found. The assessment, launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Geneva, warns that, despite many successes, overall progress has been too slow for most of the targets to be met by 2015….”

 

Press release; http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/PR%20Global%20MDG09%20ENG.pdf

 

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Latin America , North Africa , Western Asia ,Sub-Saharan Africa , CIS

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