MDG Summit concludes with renewed global commitment
Panelists and more than 100 audience members raised their hands in support of health workers everywhere at the AMREF-supported GHWA event (see panel for details).
While expressing deep concern that progress has fallen far short of what is needed, the United Nations summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) voiced confidence that with renewed global commitment the targets to slash hunger, poverty, disease, and a host of other social ills can still be achieved by 2015.
Read about AMREF's activities at the summit on the side panel. Below you will find links to documents summarizing the outcomes.
MDG Summit outcome document and summary
MDG Summit
September 20-22, 2010
New York City, NY
With only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had called on world leaders to attend a summit in New York on 20-22 September to accelerate progress towards the MDGs.
Coming amid mixed progress and new crises that threaten the global effort to halve extreme poverty, “the summit [is] a crucially important opportunity to redouble our efforts to meet the Goals,” he said, referring to the targets adopted at the UN Millennium Summit of 2000, aimed at slashing poverty, hunger, disease, maternal and child deaths and other ills by a 2015 deadline.
AMREF has worked in conjunction with, and supports various organizations who have put together policy papers, and recommendations on how best to achieve some of these goals. Please join us in our efforts by first reading the linked papers below, and then showing your support for them by forwarding to friends or signing them, and sending to the representative listed.
InterAction MDG Policy Paper
MFAN Open Letter to President Obama
AMREF Joins PHR on Call for Global HRH Target
