Poverty has a Female Face
In the year 2000, 189 world leaders pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals — a set of 8 benchmarks to eradicate extreme poverty, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat major diseases, ensure environmental sustainability and develop a global partnership for development by the year 2015. But progress is moving too slowly to meet the deadline.
World leaders have made the least progress on their promises to women.
G-20 Leaders Remain Vague on Commitments to World’s Poorest
Not a good start for the “premier forum for international economic cooperation”
The United Nations Millennium Campaign is disappointed that the recently concluded G‐20 meetings ended with nothing more than vague commitments to the needs of the world’s poorest represented by the Millennium Development Goals.
Although many countries remain off track in meeting the ambitious Millennium Development Goals that seek to slash hunger poverty and a host of other social ills by 2015, quick and significant progress is obviously possible, according to Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro.
