Full Coverage: MDGs

06.05.2008 Soaring prices of food items are making it difficult for poor countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Any long-term planning has to focus on MDGs and cross-sectoral linkages with adequate budgets if governments wish to tide over the present crisis, says Salil Shetty, Director of the UN Millennium Campaign.

05.05.2008 Today's Millennium Development Goals summit in London is in danger of becoming an empty gesture for the worldÂ’s poor and a public relations stunt for big companies, campaigners warned today as they launched an alternative action plan and challenged UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown to support it.
+ Brown slated on ‘cynical’ poverty event

01.05.2008 Many members of parliament in the Indian capital woke up surprised to find groups of children knocking at their doors. The children aided by NGOs submitted a charter of demand to be passed on to Indian Prime Minister, reminding them to fulfill the governmentÂ’s promise of education for all.