[hepr-vn] The Millennium Development Goals Report 2009

[Vern Weitzel]

Subject: 	[EQ] The Millennium Development Goals Report 2009
Date: 	Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:43:11 -0400
From: 	Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia at PAHO.ORG>
Reply-To: 	Equity, Health & Human Development <EQUIDAD at LISTSERV.PAHO.ORG>
To: 	EQUIDAD at LISTSERV.PAHO.ORG

The Millennium Development Goals Report 2009

Recent gains in eradicating hunger and poverty endangered by economic
and food crises, says UN report

United Nations, 2009


Available online PDF [60p.] at:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/MDG%20Report%202009%20ENG.pdf


*6 July, Geneva*  “…..More than halfway to the 2015 deadline to achieve
the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), major advances in the fight
against poverty and hunger have begun to slow or even reverse as a
result of the global economic and food crises, a progress report by the
United Nations has found. The assessment, launched by UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Geneva, warns that, despite many
successes, overall progress has been too slow for most of the targets to
be met by 2015….”


Press release;
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/PR%20Global%20MDG09%20ENG.pdf


Regional press releases:
Latin America
<http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/PR%20LatinAmerica%20MDG09%20ENG.pdf>
, North Africa
<http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/PR%20North%20Africa%20MDG09%20ENG.pdf>
, Western Asia
<http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/PR%20Western%20Asia%20MDG09%20ARA.pdf>
,Sub-Saharan Africa
<http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/Sub-Saharan%20Africa.pdf> , CIS
<http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/PR%20CIS%20MDG09%20ENG.pdf>