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UPDATE: World Summit, 14-16 September 2005, NY The largest ever summit of world leaders gathering the world’s most powerful leaders from 191 countries. The session marked the 60th Anniversary of the UN and was a one-in-a-generation opportunity to take bold decisions in the areas of development, security, human rights and reform of the United Nations. The world leaders reviewed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight targets set in September 2000, and distilled from previous UN commitments. |
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The MDGs include reducing Global inequality and cutting extreme poverty
in half by 2015. The Summit agenda also proposed reforms to the United
Nations detailed in the Secretary General's report entitled "In
Larger Freedom" (www.un.org/largerfreedom)
For related links see LINK Page. www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ |
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High Commissioner for Human Rights welcomes Summit gains Louise Arbour, High Commissioner for Human Rights, welcomed the adoption by world leaders of clear commitments on human rights, including the creation of a new and stronger global rights council and the doubling of the resources of the UN's human rights programme. "…The international community has declared in unambiguous terms that the protection of human rights is a central purpose of the United Nations », and that without human rights there can be no security, and no development", the High Commissioner said as Heads of State and Government wound up the World Summit at UN Headquarters in New York. "…Importantly, they have backed up this declaration with a commitment to concrete measures to ensure stronger action in the defense and promotion of human rights…". UNIFEM Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work & Poverty « This report argues that unless governments and policymakers pay more attention to employment, and its links to poverty, the campaign to make poverty history will not succeed, and the hope for gender equality will flounder on the reality of women’s growing economic insecurity. It provides the latest available data on the size and composition of the informal economy and compares national data on average earnings and poverty risk across different segments of the informal and formal workforces in six developing countries and one developed country ».
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