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UN advocacy group urges intensified efforts to achieve anti-poverty goals

26 September 2012
A United Nations advocacy group comprising eminent persons from the private sector, academia, governments and civil society called today for intensifying efforts to achieve the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the run-up to their 2015 deadline.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
UN Photo/JC McIlwaine

Citizens’ voices will be key to chart future development agenda, say top UN officials

25 September 2012
The input and participation of the world’s citizens will be key to charting the global development agenda beyond 2015, the target date for the achievement of the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), top United Nations officials stressed today, adding that the most vulnerable populations need to part of this process.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (second right) launches the MDG Gap Task Force Report 2012.
UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras

Secretary-General urges stronger global development partnership amid declining aid levels

20 September 2012
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged a stronger global partnership to advance progress on the development targets world leaders have pledged to achieve by 2015, as a new United Nations report finds that significant gains risk slowing due to declining aid.

Ban appoints Homi Kharas of Pakistan to lead panel on future global development efforts

20 September 2012
Homi Kharas of Pakistan has been appointed as lead author and Executive Secretary for the High-level Panel to advise on the global development agenda beyond 2015, the target date for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The world has met the MDG target of halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water.
UNICEF-WHO

UN experts urge action to achieve Millennium Development Goals ahead of 2015

10 July 2012
A group of United Nations independent experts today urged States to intensify efforts towards realizing the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), stressing that there is no room for complacency with only three years to achieve them before the 2015 deadline.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses high-level meeting of the Economic and Social Council.
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

UN development cooperation forum to address poverty reduction and sustainability

5 July 2012
A United Nations development cooperation forum kicked off today with a focus on making advances in poverty reduction and sustainable development through partnerships among countries, civil society organizations and the private sector.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launches the 2012 MDG Report.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

Global partnership key to achieving Millennium Development Goals by 2015 – UN report

2 July 2012
With three important targets on poverty, slums and water having been met, a new United Nations report stresses the need for a true global partnership to achieve the remaining Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the 2015 deadline.
Ray Chambers, MDG Advocate and Special Envoy for Malaria (left) and Evie Evangelou, co-founder and Global Chair of Fashion 4 Development.
UN Photo/JC McIlwaine

UN teams up with fashion industry to fight poverty

28 June 2012
The United Nations today announced its partnership with the fashion industry to fight poverty and provide assistance to millions of women and children worldwide through the Fashion for Development (F4D) initiative.
IFAD President Kanayo F. Nwanze.
IFAD

Investing in agriculture most effective way to eradicate poverty in Africa – UN

26 March 2012
With the deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) just three years away, a senior United Nations official today emphasized that spending on agriculture is the most effective type of investment for halting poverty in Africa.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flanked by Rebeca Grynspan of UNDP (right) and Special Adviser Jeffrey Sachs at press conference on the MDGs.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

Concerted global efforts have led to great strides against extreme poverty – Ban

8 March 2012
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed that focused financing and partnerships for development have resulted in great strides in the global efforts to combat extreme poverty and facilitate social development, noting that the number of impoverished people is declining across the world.