Interview on Progress of Millenium Development Goals

"In September 2000, world leaders gathered at the United Nations for the Millennium Assembly promised to halve extreme hunger and poverty, halt the spread of HIV/AIDS and provide universal primary education, all by 2015. The series of targets, known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), also include promoting gender equality, reducing child and maternal mortality, ensuring environmental sustainability and building a global partnership for development. Salil Shetty, who will address hundreds of civil society leaders at the CIVICUS World Assembly in Glasgow, Scotland later this month, is the director of the U.N. Millennium Campaign to help achieve these goals. With less than a decade to go before the deadline, he spoke to IPS about the current status of the MDGs. "

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