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UN Calls for Accelerated Action with 1,000 Days to Go on Millennium
Development Goals

Apr 4, 2013



People around the world invited to join in boosting momentum for most
successful global anti-poverty push in history



The United Nations and its partners around the world will observe the 1,000
days to the end of 2015 - the target date for achieving the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) - during the next week to inspire further action.



"The MDGs are the most successful global anti-poverty push in history," UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. "The Goals have helped set global and
national priorities, mobilize action, and achieve remarkable results."



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



Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UN Environment Programme
(UNEP) Executive Director, said: "The MDGs have proven to be a powerful
focus for international efforts to eradicate poverty and catalyze action
towards sustainable development".



"In respect to MDG 7 on environmental sustainability, there has been
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 added.



"But the broader challenges of putting the environment and its natural or
nature-based assets at the heart of sustainable development and the lives
and livelihoods of over seven billion people remain a real work in progress.
The Rio+20 Summit of 2012 has laid out some new and inspiring pathways for
achieving this, including the opportunities from a transition towards a
Green Economy," said Mr Steiner.



"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," he added.



Starting 5 April, the actual milestone date, and running through 12 April,
the UN will work with governments, civil society and international partners
to mark "MDG Momentum: 1,000 Days of Action" in a variety of ways.



In Madrid, Spain, the Secretary-General and young people from the Spanish
and European Youth Councils are observing the moment at a special event on 4
April, joined by a number of heads of UN agencies, funds and programmes who
are visiting for a senior-level UN meeting.



Since the MDGs were adopted by all UN Member States in 2000, governments,
international organizations and civil society groups around the world have
helped make tremendous progress to improve people's lives. The world's
extreme poverty rate has been cut in half since 1990. A record number of
children are in primary school - with an equal number of girls and boys for
the first time. 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.



To build on this success and accelerate action, the Secretary-General called
on the international community to: increase 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.



"The MDGs have proven that focused global development objectives can make a
profound difference," Mr. Ban said. "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."



#MDG momentum



Social media will play a major role in observing the milestone. A global
social media surge on Friday, 5 April - involving 1,000 consecutive minutes
of digital engagement - will promote #MDGmomentum
<https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MDGmomentum&src=hash> and the need to
rally the world to step up efforts to achieve the eight Goals as 2015
approaches.



People around the world are invited to take part in the social media surge
between Friday, 5 April, 8:00 am EDT and Saturday, 6 April, 1:00 am EDT.



The UN's MDG gateway will have a dedicated page promoting the various social
media materials and initiatives being organized by a number of UN agencies
and partners. The website is: www.un.org/millenniumgoals.



Please, click here to download relevant infographics for all MDGs:
http://w3.cenn.org/wssl/uploads/files/MDG-infographics.zip












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