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- Around $16 billion in new commitments unveiled at UN anti-poverty event
- World leaders endorse Ban’s call for action on climate change and food crisis
- Leaders at UN launch campaign to virtually eliminate malaria deaths by 2015
- UN-backed scheme aims to reduce maternal mortality by boosting health systems
- Time to inject new energy into global partnership for development – Ban
Press Releases
- SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS HIGH-LEVEL EVENT OUTCOME AS GLOBAL LEADERSHIP IN ACTION AT JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE WITH UNITED KINGDOM PREMIER, GATES FOUNDATION CHIEF (SG/SM/11827-DEV/2692)- 25 September 2008
- AT CONCLUSION OF HIGH-LEVEL EVENT ON MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT BACKS SECRETARY-GENERAL’S PROPOSAL FOR REVIEW MEETING (GA/10752) - 25 September 2008
- FOOD CRISIS FAR FROM OVER, SECRETARY-GENERAL WARNS, CALLING CHILDREN’S DECLINING NUTRITIONAL STATUS ‘A MORAL OUTRAGE’, AT OPENING OF HIGH-LEVEL EVENING EVENT (SG/SM/11828) - 25 September 2008
- PRESS CONFERENCE ON 2008 MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS ACHIEVEMENT AWARD- 25 September 2008
- PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL, PRIME MINISTER OF UNITED KINGDOM, CHAIR OF GATES FOUNDATION ON MILLENNIUM GOALS HIGH-LEVEL EVENT- 25 September 2008
- PRESS CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR HEALTH MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS- 25 September 2008
- DELAY IN TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE COURTS DISASTER, SECRETARY-GENERAL WARNS IN REMARKS TO EVENT HOSTED BY INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL (SG/SM/11825-ENV/DEV/1008)- 25 September 2008
- PRESS CONFERENCE ON IRELAND’S HUNGER TASK FORCE REPORT - 25 September 2008
- SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR GREATER RESOURCES TO PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY IN REMARKS AT EVENT ON EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN - 25 September 2008
- SECRETARY-GENERAL, ADDRESSING MALARIA SUMMIT, HAILS APPROACH TO DISEASE AS MODEL FOR CAMPAIGNS TO DEFEAT OTHER INTERNATIONAL ILLS - 25 September 2008
- SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES LEADERS AT MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS EVENT TO BE BOLD, GENEROUS IN THEIR COMMITMENTS - 'TELL US WHAT YOU WILL DO, HOW YOU WILL DO IT' - 25 September 2008
- SECRETARY-GENERAL ADDS HIS NAME TO OXFAM’S GLOBAL CALL TO ACTION AGAINST POVERTY, EXPRESSES DETERMINATION TO HOLD LEADERS ACCOUNTABLE TO MILLENNIUM PROMISES - 25 September 2008
- SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT PRESENTATION OF IRISH HUNGER TASK FORCE REPORT, SAYS IRELAND’S OWN MASS FAMINE REINFORCES ITS COMMITMENT TO DEVELOPING WORLD - 25 September 2008
- SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE, SAYS EDUCATION CAN DRIVE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL PROGRESS; FAILURE TO PROVIDE EDUCATION FOR ALL PUTS ENTIRE GENERATION AT RISK - 25 September 2008
- RESOURCES, IDEAS, OUTREACH NEEDED TO ADDRESS WORLD’S ‘DEVELOPMENT EMERGENCY’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN REMARKS AT NEW YORK EVENT - 25 September 2008
- SECRETARY-GENERAL, WORLD BANK CHIEF ATTEND LAUNCH OF PRIVATE SECTOR FORUM SEEKING LONG-TERM RESPONSE TO FOOD CRISIS, ENDEMIC POVERTY - 24 September 2008
- PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL, UNITED NATIONS PARTNERS TO LAUNCH FOREST DEGRADATION REDUCTION SCHEME - 24 September 2008
- PRESS CONFERENCE ON WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME ‘PURCHASE FOR PROGRESS’ PARTNERSHIP - 24 September 2008
- PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL, LEADERS OF CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE HOSTS - 24 September 2008
- PRESS CONFERENCE TO LAUNCH STUDY ‘GREEN JOBS: TOWARDS DECENT WORK IN A SUSTAINABLE, LOW-CARBON WORLD’ - 24 September 2008
- SECRETARY-GENERAL REMARKS AT PRESS CONFERENCE ON PROGRAMME TO REDUCE DEFORESTATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES - 24 September 2008
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Media Advisories
- Media Advisory - World Leaders to Boost Action to End Extreeme Poverty at United Nations High-Level Event, 25 September
- Media advisories on partnership events
Press Kit
- United Nations convenes world leaders to deliver on ending extreme poverty
- Progress in achieving UN anti-poverty goals for 2015 under threat, new report finds
- Significant progress in debt relief for poorest countries but trade and aid still major barriers to achieving anti-poverty goals
- Delivering on the Global Partnership for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals - Where are the gaps?
- The Millennium Development Goals - Overview
- Fact Sheets on each Goal: Goal 1 , Goal 2 , Goal 3 , Goal 4 , Goal 5 , Goal 6 , Goal 7 , Goal8
- UN System Communications Officials - Contact information
Millennium Development Goals Report 2008
- Global press release
- Regional press releases: Asia , Latin America , North Africa , sub-Saharan Africa , Western Asia , CIS
- Millennium Development Goals Report 2008
- Addendum to Goal 1
Delivering on the Global Partnership for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
- UN Report: Significant progress in debt relief for poorest countries but trade and aid still major barriers to achieving anti-poverty goals (press release - [PDF], 4 September 2008
- Where are the gaps?
- Report of the MDG Gap Task Force
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa
- 1 July 2008 - Launch of the MDG Africa Steering Group recommendations - Press release - [PDF]
- Summary of the MDG Africa Steering Group recommendations - [PDF]
- MDG Africa Steering and Working Groups - Fact sheet - [PDF]
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