Reality Check: Missing the Millennium Development Goals?

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What have world leaders promised?

A new video from the United Nations Millennium Campaign and United Nations Development Programme highlighting what world leaders have promised.

In September 2010, the United Nations will host the largest gathering of heads of state since the Millennium Summit in the year 2000. At their last Summit, 189 world leaders pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, in order to eradicate extreme poverty and its root causes by the year 2015. With just five years left until the deadline, the upcoming summit represents the international community’s last chance to develop breakthrough plans to achieve the Goals. We must tell heads of state in no uncertain terms that we expect them to deliver on their promises.

HEALTH: U.S. AIDS Fund Flat-Lining, Groups Complain
By Sananda Sahoo
WASHINGTON - The debate between those who favour investment in AIDS treatment and those who favour investment in its prevention came to the forefront Thursday at a U.S House of Representatives hearing on U.S. investments in HIV/AIDS in Africa.
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RIGHTS: Gender Confab Marked by Political Uncertainties
By Thalif Deen and Anna Shen*
UNITED NATIONS - When a two-week meeting on gender empowerment concluded at U.N. headquarters Friday, there were several lingering questions crying out for answers.
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DEVELOPMENT-CAMEROON: Are Women the Magic Bullet for "Electoral Apathy"?
By Mohamadou Houmfa
YAOUNDE - A support network for women's political participation, is challenging head-on what it calls "electoral apathy", after noting a growing trend in electoral abstention.
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EGYPT: Population Growth Overtakes Literacy Rise
By Cam McGrath
LUXOR - Literacy programmes are teaching millions of Egyptians to read, but are struggling to keep up with the country's high population growth.
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KENYA: Proposed Constitutional Amendment Sets Back Women’s Rights
By Susan Anyangu-Amu
NAIROBI - Lillian Mutuku, a 34-year-old mother of three, describes her home in Katine area, in Kenya’s Eastern province Tala, as a harsh place to live. The soil is poor, she says, the sun beats down mercilessly and vegetation is sparse.
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RIGHTS: Africa's Success Stories in Gender Empowerment
By Thalif Deen*
UNITED NATIONS - Whenever gender empowerment is a vibrant topic of discussion internationally, some of the countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America are invariably singled out for their success stories in politics, education, health care or civil liberties even as Africa is mostly left out of political reckoning - and wrongly so.
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EDUCATION-TANZANIA: Pregnant Teens Forced Out of School
By Arnaud Bébien
DAR-ES-SALAAM - Pregnancy is the leading cause of dropouts for school girls in Tanzania. And a national law forbidding young mothers to return to school after giving birth did not make it any easier for them to continue their education.
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EDUCATION-URUGUAY: Gardens of Knowledge
By Silvana Silveira
MONTEVIDEO - "Nature is wise, and if we take the time to observe it, we can learn so much" is the underlying philosophy of a number of innovative programmes being carried out in Uruguayan schools that are using gardens as a teaching resource, explained Edith Moraes, director of the national Primary Education Board.
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LATIN AMERICA: Abortion - Still Illegal, Still Killing, Despite Growing Awareness
By Estrella Gutiérrez
CARACAS - Although most of the governments in Latin America today are described as progressive, abortion is only legal in one country, while in five countries it is banned under all circumstances, even when the mother's life is at risk.
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RIGHTS: "Famine Marriages" Just One Byproduct of Climate Change
By Thalif Deen*
UNITED NATIONS - The negative fallout from climate change is having a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from higher death rates during natural disasters to heavier household and care burdens.
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PERU: Suspension of Mining Operation Merely a Placebo
By Milagros Salazar
LIMA - Although the Peruvian government reported that it had suspended the exploration activities of the Afrodita mining company in the country's northern Amazon jungle region to avoid further protests by local indigenous people, officials took no actual steps to bring the firm's work to a halt.
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: ‘We Will Demonstrate, As They Celebrate’
By Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi
KAMPALA - ‘Equal rights; equal opportunities’ may be the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day, but while women around the world celebrate, a group of Ugandan women are protesting against the suppression of their rights.
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HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Five Years to Children Born Free of HIV
By Marshall Patsanza
JOHANNESBURG - A world where all children are born free of HIV infection is possible in only five years if donors continue to fund global efforts to combat the virus.
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TRINIDAD: Women Demand a Real Gender Policy
By Peter Richards
PORT OF SPAIN - A few days after she created history by becoming the first woman to be elected as opposition leader and the leader of a major political party in Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad Bissessar was kicking mad at the "misunderstanding" of the role of women and their contribution to society.
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Q&A: Qualified Women Have Better Chance in Top Jobs
Thalif Deen interviews UNESCO Director-General IRINA BOKOVA*
UNITED NATIONS - Irina Bokova, who was elected director-general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) last September, heads the Paris-based agency at a time when the world body has placed a high priority on gender empowerment.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Community Fears World Cup Will Cause Homelessness
By Ann Hellman
CAPE TOWN - While South African parliamentarians attended a swanky pre-International Women’s Day celebration at Cape Town’s International Convention Centre, a group of destitute women in decaying Kewtown, just seven miles away, worried about looming homelessness.
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INDIA: No Stopping Reserved Seats for Women in Parliament
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - With assured backing from India's main opposition groups, the ruling Congress party hopes to see voted through in the upper house of Parliament Monday a bill reserving 33 percent of seats in national and provincial legislatures for women.
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RIGHTS-SWAZILAND: Property Rights At Last for Women
By Mantoe Phakathi
MBABANE - A recent court ruling has finally given Swazi women the right to own and administer property in their own names.
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CUBA: A Good Old Age in Old Havana
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - In the centre of Old Havana, historic buildings are being restored without neglecting the occupants who are their heart and soul. The priority is to care for elderly residents with programmes that could become a model for the rest of Cuba, whose population is ageing fast.
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CENTRAL AMERICA: Women Make Headway in Politics - and Want More
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - The victory of Laura Chinchilla in Costa Rica's presidential elections, and the growing participation of women in Central American parliaments, point to their progress in the region's spheres of political power. But they still have a long way to go, experts say.
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RIGHTS: Arab Women Caught Between Extremes
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The status of women in a predominantly male-chauvinistic Arab world continues to fluctuate from one extreme to another.
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In 2000, 189 countries adopted the Millennium Declaration. Last year, world leaders convened in New York to access progress toward their commitments to reach the Millennium Development Goals on aid, trade and debt, governance, education, health and democracy by 2015. Much has been done. It is estimated, for example, that the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria - set up at the 2001 Genoa Summit - has saved more than 2 million lives. However, there is still a long way to go to meeting the goals. IPS is covering the issues at stake and more.

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