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From the Millennium Summit to 2015: the challenges ahead.

Publication: UN Chronicle
Publication Date: 01-DEC-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: From the Millennium Summit to 2015: the challenges ahead.(Millennium Development Goals)

Article Excerpt
When Heads of State and Government met at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 8 September 2000, we reflected on many previous resolutions and declarations made at the international, continental, as well as regional levels. We realized then, and we know now, that almost all of them centred on the now famous Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were the core of the UN Millennium Declaration. During the Summit, we agreed to "spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty". We further committed ourselves to "making the right to development a reality for everyone and to freeing the entire race from want".

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