Millenium Development Goals

What to wish for in 2010? 

That’s easy.

Real progress on the UN Millennium Development Goals. 

As the second decade of this still young millennium gets underway, I keep imagining what it was like to be one of the 189 world leaders at the UN ten years ago, voting to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015.  What a surge of hope and pride you’d feel knowing your collective power is going to “spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.”

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Join millions worldwide to STAND UP and TAKE ACTION against Poverty and for the Millennium Development Goals at events across Canada, October 17th to 19th.

Last year, over 43 million people Stood Up to demand that world leaders keep their promises to end poverty and inequality . This year, help us break that record and send an even louder message to our governments.

October 17, 2008 | 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Vancouver, BC

The purpose of this forum, presented by Amnesty International, is to bring together a diverse group of individuals and organizations interested in exploring the issue of poverty as a human rights issu

Today's always a weird day for me. A hard day for some reason - pardon the melodrama.

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