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Eliminating World Poverty:
Global Goals and Regional Progress
"To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you...we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders."
- US President Barack Obama, inauguration speech, 20th of January 2009.
Date 20th - 21st of March 2009
Time Friday 5.30 - 8.00pm; Saturday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Venue Pipitea Campus, Victoria University of Wellington
Cost Free of charge
Keynote Speakers
Salil Shetty, Director of UN Millennium Campaign
Paul Collier, Professor of Economics, Oxford University (by video link)
Theme
In the midst of the global financial crisis, ending poverty has never been more urgent.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight targets which, if achieved, would greatly reduce poverty across the planet. They are the product of a remarkable international consensus: 189 governments pledged at the Millennium Summit in 2000 to ‘free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanising conditions of extreme poverty'.
The aim is to meet the MDGs by 2015. Now, in 2009, we have passed the half-way mark. This symposium will explore what progress has been made, both globally and in the Pacific, towards achieving the MDGs, and the challenges that lie ahead.
For more information or to register for the symposium, send your name, organisation, and email address to ips@vuw.ac.nz. Places are limited, so don't delay, sign up now!
The MDG symposium will be hosted by the Institute of Policy Studies, in partnership with Oxfam New Zealand, the Council for International Development and the British High Commission, Wellington.
"The poorest of the world have been patient, but a hundred years is too long to wait for justice...So to seek to make poverty history...and make it happen now."
- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
