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Millennium Goals - UNDP Print E-mail
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the most broadly supported, comprehensive and specific development goals the world has ever agreed upon. These eight time-bound goals provide concrete, numerical benchmarks for tackling extreme poverty in its many dimensions. They include goals and targets on income poverty, hunger, maternal and child mortality, disease, inadequate shelter, gender inequality, environmental degradation and the Global Partnership for Development.

Adopted by world leaders in the year 2000 and set to be achieved by 2015, the MDGs are both global and local, tailored by each country to suit specific development needs. They provide a framework for the entire international community to work together towards a common end – making sure that human development reaches everyone, everywhere. If these goals are achieved, world poverty will be cut by half, tens of millions of lives will be saved, and billions more people will have the opportunity to benefit from the global economy.

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ICESCR and the MDGs seminar report: Reflecting Voices and Perspectives from South African Civil Society Organisations

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On 15 September 2010 civil society organisations and human rights institutions participated in a seminar to discuss South Africa’s 2010 Draft Report on the status of its progress towards achieving the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The seminar took place against the backdrop of the MDG Review Summit that will take place at the United Nations in New York from 20-22 September 2010 as well as the UN’s annual treaty signing event also taking place from 21 to 23 and 27 to 28 September 2010 in New York.

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Equal Pay for Equal Work Print E-mail

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"The Streets of the Johannesburg CDB - through the eyes of a Protest Marcher"

eyes-of-a-protest-marcherThe social services sector is not known for taking drastic action or for embarking on militant protests and making unreasonable ‘demands’. However, at times, when things reach unacceptable levels the sector will take action in an effort to make their point and such an occasion occurred on Friday when the social services NPO sector went on a protest march. The marchers called for a new deal for social service financing. This means government subsidies that are sufficient for organisations to provide services of a decent standard for all who need them, and to offer equal pay for equal work. At present, workers employed by government have far better pay and benefits than Non Profit Organisation workers, and NPOs therefore keep losing their staff yet they are often expected to carry a significant portion of the workload. These Non Profit Organisations work hard to raise funds to run their services, but they also need reliable and realistic government funding to enable them to do their work properly.

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Stand Up & Take Action

stand-up-take-actionStand Up & Take Action is the largest global campaign by people to take action for a better world. A world where no one goes to bed hungry, a world where we protect and respect the environment, where every child has free education and access to good health care, where we have decent jobs, a world with no HIV & AIDS and a world where women are celebrated and respected. We want people to Stand Up and tell everyone about the world they would like to see and live in. Last year, 117 million people around the world supported Stand Up & Take Action.
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