INTERVIEW-G20 commitment a must to meet Millennium goals
Source: Reuters, By Fiona Shaikh
LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) – World leaders must honour their pledges on aid and protectionism at this week’s G20 summit or risk missing global targets to improve life in the poorest nations, according to the head of the UN Millennium Campaign.
Salil Shetty, Global Director of the Millennium Campaign, an offshoot of the United Nations which lobbies governments to do their bit to meet the Millennium Development Goals, says less talk and more action are vital to achieve the goals by 2015.
New York, December 4, 2008 –The United Nations Millennium Campaign welcomes the strong reaffirmation of support for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the recognition of the key linkage between MDGs and climate change, and the full endorsement of the Monterrey Consensus contained in the outcome document of the Financing for Development Conference in Doha last weekend.
Reuters: Gulf states should up development aid - UN official, November 30, 2008
By Amran Abocar
DOHA, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Oil-rich Gulf Arab states should give more development aid to poor nations and raise transparency if they want a bigger voice on the world stage in the wake of the financial crisis, a senior U.N. official said on Sunday.
“If you want to become a full global player, it comes with responsibilities,” said Salil Shetty, director of the U.N.‘s Millennium Campaign, which aims to halve extreme poverty and boost life expectancy by 2015.
Reuters: INTERVIEW: Boost quality of aid, if not quantity – U.N., November 30, 2008
Amran Abocar
DOHA, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Donor states should improve the quality of aid to developing countries even if the global financial crisis means they do not increase their aid levels, a senior U.N. official said on Sunday.
With some nations slipping into recession and others perched on the cusp, the United Nations and aid partners fear states will cut back on aid commitments. Italy has already said it will cut its development budget and others may follow suit.
CALLS ON COUNTRIES TO COMMIT TO MORE EQUITABLE TRADE, MORE EFFECTIVE AID AND GREATER DOMESTIC RESOURCE MOBILIZATION
New York, November 26, 2008 – The United Nations Millennium Campaign is calling for donor countries gathering at the Financing for Development Conference in Doha to commit to equitable trade rules and more effective aid that can help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Poor countries in turn must focus on mobilizing domestic resources and enhance MDG-related public expenditures, as poor people brace themselves for the ripple effects of the global economic shock.
While the media confront us daily with yet more alarming news from financial markets, few people are aware of the international meeting taking place at the end of this month in Doha, not on the moribund Doha trade Round, but on Financing for Development— another likely victim of the present crisis, with grave repercussions on global poverty and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
NEW YORK – The breakdown of the latest round of global trade talks has clearly weakened the multilateral trading system, a system originally designed to offer a fair trade system to all. The collapse of negotiations on July 29th in Geneva, is yet another lost opportunity for creating a more just and fair trading system long promised to poor countries.
