Citizens Will Make their Expectations that Governments Achieve the Millennium Development Goals Too Loud to Ignore at Events Across the Globe on September 17-19

September 9, 2010 - On September 17-19, people across the globe will turn up the volume on their call for heads of state gathering at the United Nations on September 20-22 to demonstrate leadership in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

President Obama Presents Plan to Help Achieve the Millennium Development Goals

September 22, 2010 – One year ago this week at the United Nations General Assembly, President Barack Obama declared that “We [the United States] will support the Millennium Development Goals, and approach next year’s Summit with a global plan to make them a reality. And we will set our sights on the eradication of extreme poverty in our time.” That time is now and that day is today.