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Make Poverty History .. still!
By RickMeasham | October 31, 2005
The gap between the world’s rich and poor has never been wider. Malnutrition, AIDS, conflict and illiteracy are a daily reality for millions. But it isn’t chance or bad luck that keeps most people trapped in bitter, unrelenting poverty. It’s man-made factors like a glaringly unjust global trade system, a debt burden so great that it suffocates any chance of recovery and insufficient and ineffective aid.
It doesn’t have to be this way though.
In the year 2000 the governments of the world’s nations, including Australia, said that they were going to do something about it – in what was seen as a breakthrough, they promised to halve world poverty by 2015.
In order to achieve this promise to halve poverty by 2015 the leaders of governments set eight goals. These eight goals to halve poverty are called the Millennium Development Goals.
Five years later the world is failing to reach those goals.
Please take a minute or two to visit the Make Poverty History website: You’ve seen the banners, you’ve seen the stickers and you’ve seen the wristbands: now see the website.
The Banner
If you have your own website, please consider adding the Make Poverty History banner that you see at the top right of my little site. All you need to do is add the following code somewhere in your html: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.isite.net.au/makepovertyhistory.js"></script>
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