1, 000 DAYS AND COUNTING: UN CALLS FOR ACCELERATED ACTION ON THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

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1,000 DAYS AND COUNTING: UN CALLS FOR ACCELERATED ACTION ON THE
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
New York, Apr 5 2013 12:00PM
The United Nations today called for accelerated action in the next
1,000 days from governments, international organizations and civil
society groups to reach the eight anti-poverty targets known as the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by their deadline at the end of
2015.

"The MDGs are the most successful global anti-poverty push in
history," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said from Madrid, where
later today he will formally kick off the campaign tagged "MDG
Momentum – 1,000 Days of Action."

"The Goals have helped set global and national priorities, mobilize
action, and achieve remarkable results," he added.

The eight time-bound MDGs address poverty and hunger, education,
gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, combating AIDS,
malaria and other diseases, environmental sustainability and a global
partnership for development.

According to UN figures, since the MDGs were adopted by all UN Member
States in 2000, global extreme poverty rate has been cut in half. A
record number of children are in primary school, with the number of
girls equalling the boys for the first time.

In addition, according to those figures, maternal and child mortality
have dropped. The world continues to fight killer diseases, such as
malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS. Since 1990, two billion more people
have gained access to safe drinking water.

"We all have a responsibility to make the most of the next 1000 days
and fulfil the millennium promise to the world's poorest and most
vulnerable people," Mr. Ban said at a joint press conference with
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain in Madrid, where he will today
accept the New Economy Forum Award.

Starting today, the UN will work with partners around the world to
spur momentum to achieve greater gains by the 2015 target date.

On social media platforms, UN agencies, partners, and individuals are
participating in 1,000 minutes of online programming about building
momentum under the Twitter hashtag #MDGmomentum. Organized in
partnership with UN Foundation, participants are invited to be active
in Google hang-outs, Facebook chats and Twitter dialogues about the
MDGs from across the world through Saturday, 6 April, at 1pm EDT.

Among the events is a Twitter photo rally asking UN staff and partners
to tweet photos that illustrate the local impacts that MDGs have for
communities around the world.

Meanwhile, Mr. Ban and youth from the Spanish and European Youth
Councils yesterday highlighted the MDGs at a special event joined by
heads of UN agencies, funds and programmes who are visiting Spain for
a senior-level UN meeting.

In an opinion piece he penned for Spain's main newspaper, 'El Pais',
Mr. Ban urges the international community to accelerate progress
towards the goals by increasing targeted investments in health,
education, energy and sanitation; empower women and girls; focus on
the most vulnerable people; keep up aid commitments; and re-energize
efforts from governments to grassroots groups to make a difference.

Mr. Ban wrote that "cynics expected the MDGs to be abandoned as too
ambitious. Instead, the Goals have helped set global and national
priorities, mobilize action, and achieve remarkable results."

He adds that success in the next 1,000 days "will not only improve the
lives of millions, it will add momentum as we plan for beyond 2015 and
the challenges of sustainable development."

Also today, Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UN
Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director, praised the MDGs,
particularly Goal 7 on environmental sustainability, for contributing
to "considerable progress in respect to the provision of water and the
extension of National Parks and other protected areas on land and, to
an extent, at sea."

He cautioned that challenges remain, particularly in putting the
environment and its natural or nature-based assets at the heart of
sustainable development.

"The post 2015 development agenda affords a further opportunity to
deliver goals based on broader notions of wealth - from the planet's
freshwaters to its forests, soils and atmosphere - and the urgency to
decouple economic growth from pollution footprints and
over-exploitation of humanity's finite natural resources," Mr. Steiner
said.
Apr 5 2013 12:00PM
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