Alert Peru. this week in New York began the summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) convened by the United Nations (UN) to review the work done during the last decade in the fight against extreme poverty, hunger, disease and inequality. For three days will gather around 140 heads of state will discuss a plan with a mission to renew the promise of eradicating hunger and extreme poverty by 2015, made 10 years ago at the Millennium Summit. Yet five years after the deadline, the planet is far from having fulfilled the goals set a decade ago, the summit noted the delays. Although I comment the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, that "considerable progress has been made, but we need to move faster, much, much faster, "the secretary general of Amnesty International, Salil Shetty, said that the two main obstacles facing the MDGs are the absence in many countries in developing mechanisms to hold accountable the politicians and social and geographical inequality progress. In fact argued that the absence of political power "groups without a voice", the absence of human rights or the marginalization conspire to those who most need the Millennium Development Goals, are the least likely to require their leaders to comply.
In this regard, the World Bank president Robert Zoellick acknowledged that in 2010, 65 million additional women and men fell in poverty in the world, and that 1.5 million children are at risk of dying before their fifth birthday in 2015. That is why in its first day of intervention, Evo Morales has said that without the IMF are better than before, referring to countries that do not follow IMF prescriptions. For Evo, the goal will be met when developing countries curb "the looting of their natural resources and reinvest in health and education." Oxfam spokeswoman, said that "of a promised $ 25.000 million in 2005, received only 11.000 million dollars to date" and urged countries rich to give better treatment to African countries in trade and adaptation to climate change impacts. Also
agencies realize that the summit is clearly marked by the facts of the economic crisis. In fact, as revealed by the 2010 report of the Working Group on the gap in the achievement of the MDGs, the financial crisis and economic downturn suffered by the world since 2008 has caused serious setbacks and has severely affected the economies of most of 50 developing countries. The UN report "We can end poverty by 2015" (prepared with a view to the summit) reveals that the number of people currently living below the international poverty threshold has fallen from 1,800 million to 1,400 million between 1990 and 2005 and the proportion of people living in extreme poverty rose from 46 to 27 percent.
Campaigns and actions
also know that in an effort to increase participation and inclusion in this process, Liaison Service United Nations non-governmental organizations (NGLS) and the Millennium Campaign United Nations are conducting consultations with civil society groups from around the world and compile their views in a report to be presented to Member States and other stakeholders. The report will be published during the aforementioned hearings. Meanwhile
Ban Ki-moon has used the summit to launch a high-level panel on global sustainability. Over the next 15 months, the panel will draw a roadmap to be followed by countries to develop without putting at risk its resources and the ecosystem. By 2050, he said, the population will have grown by almost 50% to 9,000 million inhabitants. "For that same year, we must cut emissions by 50% if we want to keep climate change under control."
Remenber: The eight millennium goals
As we know the millennium goals set by UN member nations were eight The first was to join efforts to reduce global poverty by half between 1990 and 2015.
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality Improve maternal health
Combat HIV / AIDS malaria and other diseases Ensure
support
environmental Develop a global partnership for development.
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