On the eve of the third G20 Summit since the global economic crisis began, Jubilee USA and the United Nations Millennium Campaign, hosted a blogger roundtable, Tuesday, June 22, to launch a new report entitled “Making the Grade? The Group of G20’s Commitments to the World’s Poorest”.

June 18, 2010- Last week, the United Nations Millennium Campaign in North America launched the a manual for Parliamentarians on the Millennium Development Goals at the Canadian Parliamentary Summit in Ottawa.

The UN Millennium Campaign hosted an interactive panel discussion with over 80 high-level Washington DC civil society participants on Thursday, April 15. The discussion centered upon: (a) the progress-to-date of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); (b) the US government commitment to achieving the MDGs; (c) the role that civil society can play in both achieving the MDGs and influencing the Obama Administration; and, (d) the UN MDG Review Summit being held September 20-22.

The United Nations Millennium Campaign and its partners today launched an online petition “OK to 0.7,” through which Canadian citizens will demand that their government keep its promises to allocate 0.7 percent of Gross National Income to foreign aid. The petition was developed by Montreal-based communications firm Cossette. It demands that Canada deliver on commitments which are critical to achieving the Millennium Development Goals – the set of promises made by rich and poor countries to work together to eradicate extreme poverty by the year 2015.

A group of experts discussed three major crises facing the world over the past year: Afghanistan, the Global Economy, and Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations Association Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference and 2010 Members’ Day.

In honor of International Women’s Day, Anita Sharma, North American Coordinator for the UN Millennium Campaign, spoke during the BBC program World News Today. Sharma indicated that achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for women (including, but not limited to, Goal 3: Gender Equality and Goal 5: Maternal Health) are the linchpin to achieving all of the MDGs. Although progress has been made, poverty still has a female face with women and children making up 70% of the world's poor.