MDG

General Assembly to hold special session to accelerate progress on development goals

24 November 2006
Top executives from the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, the Soros Foundation and Sun Microsystems will be on hand next week when the United Nations General Assembly opens a special meeting on reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of global antipoverty targets, through partnerships with the private sector and others.

UN’s agricultural and educational agencies spotlight rural Caribbean poverty

18 May 2006
With rural poverty high and the level of rural education low in Caribbean countries, the United Nations agricultural and educational agencies today opened a two-day regional meeting in St. Lucia on nutrition, education and HIV/AIDS.

Teacher shortages threaten primary education goal in Africa, Arab States – UN

19 April 2006
Looming teacher shortages could prevent sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab States from achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of providing universal primary education (UPE) by 2015, according to a new United Nations report.
Jeffrey Sachs briefs press

Alleviating extreme poverty is affordable, UN Special Adviser say

9 January 2006
World leaders should make 2006 “the year of real action,” senior UN adviser Jeffrey Sachs said in Kenya today, asserting that the cost of alleviating extreme poverty is definitely affordable.